The Hero of Mississippi Burning

The Hero of Mississippi Burning
Author: Mickel Moorer
Publisher: FriesenPress
Total Pages: 123
Release: 2019-10-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1525554921

1964 was the height of the Civil Rights and Wrongs Movement, and America was in turmoil. I was eight years old and visiting the town of Philadelphia, Mississippi for a family reunion. This story is about something I have remembered from that time, when I met two men on a creek bank in Neshoba County, Mississippi on August 6, 1964. I have always remembered what they said out loud in front of me. The one with the hat said, "Judge, go up there and find out who's muddying up the water," and the tall slender man said, "You're the Lawman-you go up there and find out who’s muddying up the water." I’ve always wondered why I met two men that were a judge and a lawman. Meanwhile, 50 years later while doing research on the Internet, I discovered information pertaining to the identity of the middle man between the FBI and the person who helped solve the mystery of the whereabouts of the three civil rights workers that went missing on June 21, 1964. He was Commander of the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol in Meridian, Mississippi. But the identity of the local Neshoba County Citizen that helped the FBI is still unknown. I know who is America’s unsung hero!

State Trooper

State Trooper
Author: Marilyn Olsen
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2001
Genre: Police patrol
ISBN: 1563116138

This study examines the phenomenon of peasant resistance in westernMaharashtra with special reference to the years 1875-1947. It investigates thetranformation of agrarian society in this region through a sociological analysisof specific cases of peasant resistance.

Three Years in Mississippi

Three Years in Mississippi
Author: James Meredith
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2019-02-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1496821025

On October 1, 1962, James Meredith was the first African American student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. Preceded by violent rioting resulting in two deaths and a lengthy court battle that made it all the way to the Supreme Court, his admission was a pivotal moment in civil rights history. Citing his “divine responsibility” to end white supremacy, Meredith risked everything to attend Ole Miss. In doing so, he paved the way for integration across the country. Originally published in 1966, more than ten years after the Supreme Court ended segregation in public schools in Brown v. Board of Education, Meredith describes his intense struggle to attend an all-white university and break down long-held race barriers in one of the most conservative states in the country. This first-person account offers a glimpse into a crucial point in civil rights history and the determination and courage of a man facing unfathomable odds. Reprinted for the first time, this volume features a new introduction by historian Aram Goudsouzian.

Jet

Jet
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Publisher:
Total Pages: 64
Release: 1972-06-08
Genre:
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The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.

The Mississippi Encyclopedia

The Mississippi Encyclopedia
Author: Ted Ownby
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 1461
Release: 2017-05-25
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1496811593

Recipient of the 2018 Special Achievement Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters and Recipient of a 2018 Heritage Award for Education from the Mississippi Heritage Trust The perfect book for every Mississippian who cares about the state, this is a mammoth collaboration in which thirty subject editors suggested topics, over seven hundred scholars wrote entries, and countless individuals made suggestions. The volume will appeal to anyone who wants to know more about Mississippi and the people who call it home. The book will be especially helpful to students, teachers, and scholars researching, writing about, or otherwise discovering the state, past and present. The volume contains entries on every county, every governor, and numerous musicians, writers, artists, and activists. Each entry provides an authoritative but accessible introduction to the topic discussed. The Mississippi Encyclopedia also features long essays on agriculture, archaeology, the civil rights movement, the Civil War, drama, education, the environment, ethnicity, fiction, folklife, foodways, geography, industry and industrial workers, law, medicine, music, myths and representations, Native Americans, nonfiction, poetry, politics and government, the press, religion, social and economic history, sports, and visual art. It includes solid, clear information in a single volume, offering with clarity and scholarship a breadth of topics unavailable anywhere else. This book also includes many surprises readers can only find by browsing.

Sons of Mississippi

Sons of Mississippi
Author: Paul Hendrickson
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2015-02-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 0804153345

They stand as unselfconscious as if the photograph were being taken at a church picnic and not during one of the pitched battles of the civil rights struggle. None of them knows that the image will appear in Life magazine or that it will become an icon of its era. The year is 1962, and these seven white Mississippi lawmen have gathered to stop James Meredith from integrating the University of Mississippi. One of them is swinging a billy club. More than thirty years later, award-winning journalist and author Paul Hendrickson sets out to discover who these men were, what happened to them after the photograph was taken, and how racist attitudes shaped the way they lived their lives. But his ultimate focus is on their children and grandchildren, and how the prejudice bequeathed by the fathers was transformed, or remained untouched, in the sons. Sons of Mississippi is a scalding yet redemptive work of social history, a book of eloquence and subtlely that tracks the movement of racism across three generations and bears witness to its ravages among both black and white Americans.

Mississippi Whispers

Mississippi Whispers
Author: Alexis Heflin
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2018-02-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781983788468

A bullet riddled car, a torn-up hotel room, and a phone call from a former friend testifying to the murder of John Lloyd "Buddy" Heflin all point to foul play in his disappearance from Jackson, Mississippi on a cold New Years Day in 1969. Despite the evidence, no official investigation was ever done, leaving his family with only whispers of what may have led to the reports of him being thrown into the unfeeling waters of the Mississippi river. A conspiracy of silence and a coverup? The persistent whispers concerning Buddy's disappearance have haunted his wife and children for forty-nine years and only the truth can finally quiet them forever.