Ashley Steenson

Parchman inmates being transported to work in fields near the prison, Mississippi, 1964 © Robert Elfstrom/Villon Films/Getty Images.

Out on Good Behaviour

Mississippi’s governors have had a unique approach to prison labour and prisoner rehabilitation.

President Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act in the White House, 1935. Harrison is in the white suit.

Roosevelt’s Southern Connection

Was the US president ‘dealing with the devil’ in his relationships with segregationist politicians or was his ‘the art of the possible’?