Mississippi Civil Rights Revisited
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CONTENTS
Cover Page & Intro
Foreword by Benjamin T. Greenberg vii
Prologue xivBook One History to Learn From
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Chapter 1 From the Delta 30
Chapter 2 On Becoming Mississippi 37
Chapter 3 Hands that Picked the Cotton 55
Chapter 4 War of Aggression 64
Chapter 5 Freedom’s Taste 85
Chapter 6 Power of Terrorism 119
Chapter 7 Integration ‘Impossible’ 135
Chapter 8 Under the Microscope 157
Book Two Still Time To Learn
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Chapter 9 Mississippi Stories 178
Chapter 10 Veterans Challenge the System 186
Chapter 11 War Rumors Hang Around 195
Chapter 12 Post War Civil Rights 207
Chapter 13 Brown & White Citizens Councils 217
Chapter 14 Bloody Belzoni 240
Chapter 15 Emmett Till 249
Chapter 16 The Meltons of Glendora 280
Chapter 17 Surviving Mississippi 295
Chapter 18 Registering Voters 306
Chapter 19 Mission Implausible 337
Chapter 20 Pushing the System 350
Chapter 21 Cleve McDowell 381
Chapter 22 Medgar Evers 394
Chapter 23 De’ Lay 399
Chapter 24 Follow the Money 419
Chapter 25 Chaney, Goodman & Schwerner 433
Chapter 26 Let the Summer Begin 461
Chapter 27 Klandestine 469
Chapter 28 Freedom Democrats 483
Chapter 29 Not Afraid 493
Chapter 30 For Freedom’s Sake 509
Chapter 31 Self Preservation 524
Chapter 32 Advocacy Building 542
Chapter 33 More Violence to Reconcile 561
Chapter 34 A Place in Time 591
Epilogue 612
Appendix