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 […]
Serena Knight of the Free State of Jones
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 […]
Newt Knight’s Home as Remembered by Maxwell Coats, 1987
A copy of this beautiful painting of Newt Knight’s farm was provided to me through the efforts of Charlene Morehead and Mitchell Coats. Maxwell “Mac” Coats, Mitchell’s father, painted it from […]
The Movie “Free State of Jones” is on the way!
By Vikki Bynum Deadline.com and Variety Magazine have announced that the long anticipated movie “Free State of Jones” is in the works—just eight years after Universal Studios bought the rights to my book from the […]
Actor Daniele Watts Discovers her Roots in the Free State of Jones
While perusing the Internet, I recently discovered the following 2012 essay by Daniele Watts, whose name I recognized as the actor who played the slave Coco in the movie Django Unchained. I […]
The Family Origins of Vernon Dahmer, Civil Rights Activist
Originally posted on Renegade South:
Note from Renegade South: Vernon F. Dahmer, a well known Mississippi civil rights worker, was murdered in 1966 by white supremacists connected to the Ku Klux Klan.…
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