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...inspiration for the series came after Seton, a social studies concentrator, worked with Executive Director of PBHA Gene Corbin in the Missippi Delta last spring and spent this past summer at the Paulo Freire Institute of South Africa, a center whose namesake stressed that education happens through dialogue between teacher and student, according to Seton...
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...Missippi Project was begun with a series of articles stating that Mississippi would be a "bloodbath as a result of a massive, daring assault on the recial barriers of that state." Such articles were released from various sources all over the United States. Mississippians had no cause to expect anything else. So they braced themselves and planned a defense against what they feared might be aggressive measures. Before the members of the Project arrived, Mississippians were strongly opposed...
...blunders of the Project, I think this was the most absurd and unnecessary. If the members of the Project really wanted to help the Negroes of Missippi, the most obvious mistake they could make would be to threaten the white Mississippians to force them to be cooperative. Mississippi's race problem will not be solved by pitting the nation against Mississippi with techniques of violence...
Within the past year, five Negroes in the state of Missippi have been murdered and hundreds of others have been terrorized and/or threatened with economic strangulation. The crime committed by three of the murdered person was the undemocratic act of getting the Negro population to exercise their Constitutional right to vote; or had themselves attempted to exercise that right. If Mr. Halberstam believes that to propagandize against these violations of the civil and human rights of Negroes in Mississippi is "to obscure the true picture in the South" and is destructive to the resolution of the racial problem...