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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:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 2003.. Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. A look at the Civil Rights era and post Civil Right era and how it affected the children and grandchildren of seven Mississippi law enforcement officers who were captured in an infamous 1962 Life magazine photo portrait in a story on James Meredith's effort to integrate the University of Mississippi. Illustrated with a map and photographs. Bibliographical essay, index. 343 pp

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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
Format/Binding
Hardcover first edition -
Book Condition
Used - Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Jacket Condition
like
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0375404619
ISBN 13
9780375404610
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf,
Place of Publication
New York:
Date Published
2003.
Keywords
mississippi, south, desegration, law enforcement, oral history, family history, civil rights, james meredith,
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Race relations and racism;

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