White Citizens’ Councils led massive resistance to school integration after Brown v. Board

After Brown v. Board, White Citizens’ Councils spread across the South, using economic coercion to block desegregation.
The Bowdoin Orient

Dr. Teona Williams ’12 discusses Fannie Lou Hamer and Mississippi activism

On Wednesday night, Dr. Teona Williams ’12 spoke to a crowded room of students, professors and community members in Mills ...
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To write in the light of freedom : the newspapers of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Schools / edited by William Sturkey and Jon N. Hale

"This collection contains Freedom School newspapers gathered from archives, libraries, and personal collections across America"--Introduction. "Fifty years after Freedom Summer, To Write in the Light ...
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Mississippi Freedom Summer 1964

Mark Levy volunteered for the Mississippi Freedom Summer project of 1964 as co-coordinator and teacher at the Meridian Freedom School in Lauderdale County. Levy received a B.A. in Sociology (1964) and ...
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And I said no Lord : a twenty-one-year-old in Mississippi in 1964 / Joel Katz

Introduction; 1. In the Capital: Urban and Rural; 2. At RC's: Community Institutions: Cafe, Barber Shop, Pool Hall, Church; 3. Interview with the Citizen's Councils ...