Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Freedom Vote, sponsored by COFO, Mississippi Negroes will cast ballots for United States Senator, choosing between Sen. John Stennis (D-Miss.) and Aaron Henry, head of the state NAACP. 80,000 voters are expected to take part in the "election...
...Harvard student from Mississippi was chatting with a doctor's wife in his home town this summer. "Have you read Silver's book?" she asked...
...Mississippi, can you?" he asked in surprise...
This anecdote is what James W. Silver's book is all about. Silver, a history professor at the University of Mississippi, witnessed the riots there when James Meredith was admitted in 1962. Horrified, he decided to present the facts about the event and to place it in historical perspective. The result was an address before the Southern Historical Association, of which he was outgoing president, and--much expanded--Mississippi: The Closed Society...
...thesis, evident from the title, is that Mississippi has become a closed society with an orthodoxy accepted by nearly all the citizens--at least, the white citizens--of the state. Mississippi's institutions, Silver maintains, cooperate in enforcing the official doctrine of white supremacy. Non-conformists are silenced or expelled from the community...