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Sons of Mississippi; A Story of Race and its Legacy

Sons of Mississippi; A Story of Race and its Legacy

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Sons of Mississippi; A Story of Race and its Legacy

by Hendrickson, Paul

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New York: Vintage Books [0-375-70425-6] 2003. (Trade paperback) 343pp. Near fine. Photographs, bibliography, index. "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". Book about University of Mississippi. Time Period 1960's. Locale: Mississippi--United States. (History--United States, African Americans, Biography, Case Studies, Civil Rights Movement, History--United States, Racism).

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Recounts the story of seven white Mississippi lawmen depicted in a horrifically telling 1962 Life magazine photograph, and of the racial intolerance that is their legacy. The men have gathered to stop James Meredith from integrating the University of Mississippi, and  The Sons of Mississippi  investigates how their racial attitudes shaped their lives and the lives of the generations that came after them.  Paul Hendrickson, a prizewinning feature writer for the Washington Post for more than twenty years, now teaches nonfiction writing at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Seminary: A Search, Looking for the Light: The Hidden Life and Art of Marion Post Wolcott (a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), and The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War (a finalist for the National Book Award). He lives with his wife and two sons in Philadelphia. From the Hardcover edition. -

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Title
Sons of Mississippi; A Story of Race and its Legacy
Author
Hendrickson, Paul
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Paperback
Book Condition
Used
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ISBN 10
0375704256
ISBN 13
9780375704253
Publisher
Vintage Books
Place of Publication
New York
This edition first published
January 6, 2004
Keywords
History--United States, African Americans, Biography, Case Studies, Civil Rights Movement, History--United States, Racism
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