In the 1890s, Mississippi society still drew a sharp line between its African American and white communities by creating a repressive racial system that ensured white supremacy by legally segregating black residents and removing their basic citizenship and voting rights. Over the ensuing decades, white residents suppressed African Americans who dared defy that system with an array of violence, terror, and murder. In 1960, students supporting civil rights moved into Mississippi and challenged this repressive racial order by encouraging African Americans to reassert the rights guaranteed under...
In the 1890s, Mississippi society still drew a sharp line between its African American and white communities by creating a repressive racial system th...
During the early 1960s, President John F. Kennedy, his various secretaries, attorney general, civil rights staff of the Department of Justice, and his White House staff attempted to overcome the extreme opposition to achieving racial justice in Mississippi. That opposition appeared in many forms, but was most powerfully articulated by the state's congressmen and elected officials, all of whom used legal obstructionism or extra-legal actions to block Kennedy's aim to bring justice to Mississippi's African American community. In this volume, James Marshall collects a vast array of documents...
During the early 1960s, President John F. Kennedy, his various secretaries, attorney general, civil rights staff of the Department of Justice, and his...
