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June 21, 2005 - PRESS RELEASE: New Book Announcement Where Rebels Roost Mississippi Civil Rights Revisited In the hot summer before the cold winter in which our nation entered the war to end all wars, two black males were born. Both were murdered in the Mississippi Delta .. Emmett Till died at 14, and Cleve McDowell only lived to be 56.
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Born in Greenwood, Mississippi, the heart of the Mississippi Delta, Endesha Ida Mae Holland came of age as the civil rights movement was changing the lives of black Mississippians. Dirt poor, she dropped out of high school and became a prostitute when she was barely into her teens. By the time she was 18 years old, Holland had served two terms in the county workhouse for theft and for assault. A chance encounter led her to become involved with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and she became an activist and organizer, taking a new path that eventually led her to the University of Minnesota, where she earned a doctorate and became a college professor. From the Mississippi Delta is a gritty, inspiring memoir. (Amazon Review)
Sovereignty Commission, whose recently unsealed files reopened old wounds from the 1960s. Dirty isn't nearly harsh enough to describe the 20-year reign of intimidation and deceit perpetrated by the secret state agency founded to defy the Supreme Court's order for school desegregation. Dickerson, a veteran journalist and author of Goin' Back to Memphis (which studied the influence of organized crime and politics on Memphis music), traces the commission's genesis in 1955, its escalating use of unlawful tactics (including spying, dirty tricks, media manipulation, and forced conscription of political enemies) in the '60s, its eventual demise in the '70s, and the growing movement for full disclosure that resulted earlier this year in the opening of nearly 87,000 personal files. It's a bizarre story, involving organized crime, presidential and congressional politics, assassination conspiracies, and government corruption of sickening proportions. (From Kirkus Reviews)
Dittmer's stirring history of the struggle for racial justice in Mississippi tells the story in all its grim, often shocking detail. He delivers a damning indictment of the Kennedy administration for its half-hearted policies and failure to enforce the Supreme Court's ban on segregation. White churches, the author shows, consistently opposed black demands for equality and offered no leadership during the crucial 1960s. (From Publishers Weekly)
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"Men Like That" adds a new dimension to Mississippi history. Motivated by his own strong will toward social change, John Howard helps us feel deeply the persecution of homosexual men and teaches us that "the truth of sexuality is often elusive and mutable." Constance Curry, author of Silver Rights
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"By the time I was growing up and could hear about my father's earlier, exciting experiences, they had an air of unreality about them. In the suburbs of Albany, NY, talk about Minton's and the Cafe Society or about labor or nuclear arms or civil rights activism seemed exotic. People Dad knew and worked with were names in History. At my public high school there was just the smallest handful of African-American students. At home, just a mile away from school, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was simply Martin, my dad's old boss. My father also was not one for keeping track of details or keeping chronologies straight. His memories were all in soft focus, warmed in the glow of his nostalgia." |
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Recommended Reading List My favorite selections are listed here. I've included some of the newest writings on Medgar Evers, James Meredith, Emmett Till, Fanny Lou Hamer, Mae Carter, the NAACP, the Sovereignty Commission, Citizen Councils, and more about the Civil Rights Movement.. Susan |
Between 1882 and 1952, at least 3,437 black Americans were lynched, 534 of them in Mississippi — the most of any state. Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America, will be shown at Jackson State University in Jackson, Miss. from Jan. 30 to July 4. Jackson will be the fourth stop for the exhibit, previously shown in Atlanta, Pittsburgh and New York.
John Allen, an Atlanta dealer of
Southern folk art who has spent two decades gathering the collection with his
partner, John Littlefield told Jerry Mitchell of the Jackson Clarion-Ledger he
wanted the exhibit in this state because the state has shown such extremes on
the continuum of morality, from the cowardice of lynch mobs to the courage of
people such as NAACP leader Medgar Evers, who fought injustices.
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