- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Prologue In The Office of Registrar Luther Cox
- Chapter 1 Race-Haunted Mississippi
- Chapter 2 A Civil Rights Division in Justice
- Chapter 3 Civil Rights and the 1960 Campaign
- Chapter 4 Theron Lynd and the End of An Era
- Chapter 5 Preparing for Trial
- Chapter 6 The New Judge in the Southern District of Mississippi
- Chapter 7 The First Witness, Jesse Stegall
- Chapter 8 For the Defendants
- Chapter 9 The Burgers of Hattiesburg
- Chapter 10 The Other young Turks
- Chapter 11 Eloise Hopson
- Chapter 12 Hercules and its Inside Agitator, Huck Dunagin
- Chapter 13 Huck’s Men
- Chapter 14 B. F. Bourn, Storekeeper and Freedom Fighter
- Chapter 15 The Reverends James C. Chandler and Wayne Kelly Pittman
- Chapter 16 The Reverend Wendell Phillips Taylor
- Chapter 17 The Leader, Vernon Dahmer
- Chapter 18 The White Witnesses and the Women Who Registered Them
- Chapter 19 “Negro or White Didn’t Have a Thing in the World to do With it”
- Chapter 20 Ike’s Fifth Circuit
- Chapter 21 After the Trial
- Chapter 22 Mississippi Today
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plates
Race-Haunted Mississippi
Race-Haunted Mississippi
- Chapter:
- (p.6) Chapter 1 Race-Haunted Mississippi
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- Author(s):
Gordon A. Martin
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
This chapter focuses on the history of race discrimination in Forrest County, Mississippi. The discussions include the early efforts of fifteen brave black men to overturn an illegal pattern of discrimination by a Forrest County registrar; and the establishment of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission on March 29, 1956, which gathered information on civil rights activists, real and imagined, investigated meetings and other activities, and made plans to subvert them.
Keywords: civil rights activists, black men, Forrest County, race discrimination, Mississippi
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Prologue In The Office of Registrar Luther Cox
- Chapter 1 Race-Haunted Mississippi
- Chapter 2 A Civil Rights Division in Justice
- Chapter 3 Civil Rights and the 1960 Campaign
- Chapter 4 Theron Lynd and the End of An Era
- Chapter 5 Preparing for Trial
- Chapter 6 The New Judge in the Southern District of Mississippi
- Chapter 7 The First Witness, Jesse Stegall
- Chapter 8 For the Defendants
- Chapter 9 The Burgers of Hattiesburg
- Chapter 10 The Other young Turks
- Chapter 11 Eloise Hopson
- Chapter 12 Hercules and its Inside Agitator, Huck Dunagin
- Chapter 13 Huck’s Men
- Chapter 14 B. F. Bourn, Storekeeper and Freedom Fighter
- Chapter 15 The Reverends James C. Chandler and Wayne Kelly Pittman
- Chapter 16 The Reverend Wendell Phillips Taylor
- Chapter 17 The Leader, Vernon Dahmer
- Chapter 18 The White Witnesses and the Women Who Registered Them
- Chapter 19 “Negro or White Didn’t Have a Thing in the World to do With it”
- Chapter 20 Ike’s Fifth Circuit
- Chapter 21 After the Trial
- Chapter 22 Mississippi Today
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plates