Description
Rooted in a wealth of oral histories, this title tells the story of people who confronted the unprecedented devastation of sixty five thousand homes when the hurricane swept a record thirty-foot storm surge across a seventy-five-mile stretch of unprotected Mississippi towns and cities.
James Patterson Smith is professor of history at the University of Southern Mississippi, Gulf Coast campus. He is the author, with Gilbert Mason, of Beaches, Blood, and Ballots: A Black Doctor's Civil Rights Struggle, published by the University Press of Mississippi.