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People(1994), and Charles Payne, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom(1995),

examine the activism of lesser-known figures in the Magnolia state. The death

of Medgar Evers is the subject of Adam Nossiter, Of Long Memory(1994),

Reed Massengill’s Portrait of a Racist(1994), and Maryanne Vollers, Ghosts

of Mississippi(1995). Eric Burner, And Gently He Shall Lead Them(1994),

powerfully portrays SNCC leader Bob Moses. William Chafe, Never Stop

Running(1998), is a biography of Allard Lowenstein, who prodded white

students to get involved. The high price for getting involved is narrated by

William Bradford Huie, Three Lives for Mississippi(1965), Florence Mars,

Witness in Philadelphia(1977), and Seth Cagin and Philip Dray, We Are Not

Afraid(1988). Mary Aickin Rothchild, A Case of Black and White(1982),

and Doug McAdam, Freedom Summer(1988), are in-depth studies of the

young volunteers who went to Mississippi in 1964. Sally Belfrage’s Freedom

Summer(1965), Tracy Sugarman, Stranger at the Gates, and Nicholas Von

Hoffman, Mississippi Notebook(1964), are revealing firsthand accounts.

Elizabeth Sutherland has collected poignant letters from volunteers in

Letters from Mississippi (1965). Charles Marsh, God’s Long Summer

(1997), brilliantly contrasts the religious motivations of Mississippi activists,

klansmen, and bystanders.

Selma

David Garrow, Protest at Selma(1978), examines black activists who pre-

cipitated violence to elicit white support and federal government interven-

tion. Amelia Platts Boynton, Bridge Across Jordan(1979), J.L. Chestnut, Jr.,

Black in Selma(1990), Sheyann Webb and Rachel West Nelson, Selma,

Lord, Selma(1980), are memoirs of activists. Three martyrs of the Selma

campaign are chronicled in Duncan Howlett, No Greater Love(1966), Mary

Stanton, From Selma to Sorrow (1998), and Charles Eagles, Outside

Agitator(1993). The notorious sheriff James Clark, Jr., The Jim Clark Story

• ‘I Saw Selma Raped’ (1966), denounces the voting rights crusade while
  Charles Fager, Selma 1965 (1974), defends it. James Forman, Sammy
  Younge, Jr.(1968), recounts the death of a Tuskegee student activist.

Chicago

Two perspectives on the Chicago Freedom Movement are provided in Alan

Anderson and George Pickering, Confronting the Color Line(1986), and

James Ralph, Northern Protest(1993). Stephen Meyer, As Long As They

Don’t Move Next Door(2000), examines the problem of segregated housing

in Chicago and other northern cities.

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