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Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
ISBN: 9781496813435

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At the height of the civil rights movement in Mississippi, as hundreds of volunteers prepared for the 1964 Freedom Summer Project, the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) compiled hundreds of statements from activists and everyday citizens who endured police abuse and vigilante violence. Fifty-seven of those testimonies appear in Mississippi Black Paper. The statements recount how white officials and everyday citizens employed assassinations, beatings, harassment, and petty meanness to block any change in the state's segregated status quo.

The testimonies in Mississippi Black Paper come from well-known civil rights heroes such as Fannie Lou Hamer, Aaron Henry, and Rita Schwerner, but the book also brings new voices and stories to the fore. Alongside these iconic names appear grassroots activists and everyday people who endured racial terror and harassment for challenging, sometimes in seemingly imperceptible ways, the state's white supremacy.

This new edition includes the original foreword by Reinhold Neibuhr and the original introduction by Mississippi journalist Hodding Carter III, as well as Jason Morgan Ward's new introduction that places the book in its context as a vital source in the history of the civil rights movement.

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Title Mississippi Black Paper
Author Foreword by Reinhold Niebuhr; Introduction by Hodding Carter; Introduction by Jason Morgan Ward
Binding Paperback
Edition New
Pages 162
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher University Press of Mississippi
Date 2017-08-09
Features Index, Table of Contents
ISBN 9781496813435 / 149681343X
Weight 0.54 lbs (0.24 kg)
Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.37 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 0.94 cm)
Themes
- Cultural Region: South
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
Library of Congress subjects African Americans - Mississippi, Police - Mississippi
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2017022083
Dewey Decimal Code 323.119

About the author

Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) was an American theologian, ethicist, public intellectual, political commentator, and professor at Union Theological Seminary. Hodding Carter III, Starkville, Mississippi, is an American journalist and politician. He is professor emeritus of public policy at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Carter worked for eighteen years as a reporter and editor for the Delta Democrat-Times of Greenville, Mississippi, owned by his father. Jason Morgan Ward is associate professor of history at Mississippi State University. He is author of Hanging Bridge: Racial Violence and America's Civil Rights Century and Defending White Democracy: The Making of a Segregationist Movement and the Remaking of Racial Politics, 1936-1965.

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Jackson, USA: University Press of Mississippi, 2017. reprint. Trade Paperback. No jacket issued. SELLER'S DESCRIPTION - Text dates from 1965. 162 pages (xxxviii, [vi], 118) including a long new Introduction to this edition, index: publisher's black and red pictorial card covers. CONDITION - New. (a real book, ready for dispatch). Seller images show t