Sons of Mississippi (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Paul Hendrickson
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 1962-2002
- Setting: Mississippi
- Principal Characters: James Meredith, Charles Moore, Billy Ferrell, John Ed Cothran, John Henry Spencer, James Ira Grimsley, Bob Waller, Jimmy Middleton, James Wesley Garrison
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: African Americans, Segregation or integration, 1960’s, 1970’s, United States or Americans, Blacks, Police, South or Southerners, Twentieth century, 1980’s, Ethnic groups, Ethnic relations, Mississippi, Politicians, Minorities, Government, 1990’s, Law enforcement, Governors, 2000’s
- Locales: Mississippi
On Thursday afternoon, September 27, 1962, six sheriffs and one deputy from across the state of Mississippi gathered on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford. Three days later, when James Meredith’s arrival to register as the university’s first African American student sparked a riot that left two dead and hundreds injured, most of these peace officers had departed. On the eve of that violence, though, these seven men met under spreading trees on the Oxford campus, there to support Mississippi governor Ross Barnett’s stated insistence that Meredith would never be...
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