Tag: Rachel Knight

  • Gugu Mbatha-Raw to Star Opposite Matthew McConaughey in Gary Ross’ ‘Free State of Jones’ (Exclusive) The Wrap: Covering Hollywood 2014-01-06 Jeff Sneider, Film Reporter Scott Stuber and Jon Kilik are producing the Civil War tale for Robert Simonds’ STX Entertainment Hot off a pair of acclaimed performances in “Beyond the Lights” and “Belle,” Gugu Mbatha-Raw…

  • Ellisville, Miss.—(AP)—A young veteran who served in the navy as a white man and later married a white woman has been convicted of miscegenation and sentenced to five years in prison.

  • Mississippi rebel’s descendants seek family facts The Jackson Sun 2013-07-04 Laura Tillman, Associated Press SOSO, MISS. — One hundred and fifty years have passed since the Civil War, but in Mississippi, the descendants of a legendary rebel are still separating the facts of his life from fiction. Newton Knight, a white farmer from central Mississippi’s…

  • Letter documenting the struggle of two children’s attempt to attend school Special Collections University of Southern Mississippi Libraries Item of the Month March 2010 Jennifer Brannock, Special Collections Librarian The Mississippi Department of Archives and History: Sovereignty Commission Online [Note from Steven F. Riley: For more on Newton Knight, Rachel Knight, and the “Free State…

  • The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War (Scarborough review) Civil War History Volume 49, Number 1, March 2003 pages 72-74 DOI: 10.1353/cwh.2003.0026 William Kauffman Scarborough, Professor Emeritus of History University of Southern Mississippi The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War. By Victoria E. Bynum. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,…

  • Littefield Lecture: The Free State of Jones: Community, Race, and Kinship in Civil War Mississippi Littlefield Lecture University of Texas, Austin Applied Computational Engineering & Sciences Building (ACE), Avaya Auditorium 2.302 2012-03-06, 16:00-18:00 CST (Local Time) Victoria Bynum, Professor Emerita Texas State University, San Marcos Dr. Bynum will be delivering this year’s Littlefield Lectures for…

  • Charles Marsh recounts the formation and activities of The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission. The Civil Rights Movement as Theological Drama The Project on Lived Theology University of Virginia Charles Marsh In 1956, a new organization appeared, predisposed to the same political concerns articulated by the Citizen’s Council, but now underwritten by the state legislature.  The…

  • Rachel Knight: Slave, White Man’s Mistress and Mother to a Movement Johnathon Odell: Discovering Our Stories 2010-09-20 John Odell Rachel’s Children I can’t help but think of the Old Testament Abraham when I hear stories about Newt Knight. Both men sired children by a wife and a slave. In Newt’s case it was Serena and…