Please don’t miss my interview today on Rag Radio in Austin, KOOP 91.7! Host Thorne Dreyer and I will discuss my book, The Free State of Jones, and the relevance of its […]
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The Battle of Corinth: Early origins of the Knight Band to be portrayed in movie, Free State of Jones
By Vikki Bynum I had a great time on the set of The Free State of Jones movie last week! Watched a very intense Matt McConaughey, pictured above, bring Newt Knight to […]
Marszalek lecture features Texas historian Victoria Bynum
Mississippi State University, Office of Public Affairs News Bureau, (662) 325-3442. Contact: Meg Henderson. March 09, 2015. Victoria Bynum, Photo by: submitted STARKVILLE, Miss.–During a March 18 public program at Mississippi State, historian […]
Serena Knight of the Free State of Jones
By Vikki Bynum Filming of the movie Free State of Jones is about to begin, and announcements regarding the cast are regularly appearing in movie trade papers. Renegade South learned less than […]
More on Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Rachel Knight in the Free State of Jones
Reblogged from Shadow and Act: On Cinema of the African Diaspora (Indiewire): Gugu Mbatha-Raw Will Confound the Rules of Segregated Mississippi with Matthew McConaughey in ‘Free State of Jones’ By Tambay […]
The Jones County Home of William Harrison Mauldin: A Civil War Memory
By Vikki Bynum From October 1863 until the end of the Civil War, an inner civil war raged in Mississippi’s “Free State” of Jones County. According to Ed Mauldin, the log cabin of […]
Gugu Mbatha-Raw to play Rachel Knight in Free State of Jones Movie
By Vikki Bynum The movie “Free State of Jones” is heading toward production! Two exciting announcements appeared this past week. The first is a casting call for background actors that will take […]
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