{"product_id":"mississippi-black-paper-paperback","title":"Mississippi Black Paper - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eReinhold Niebuhr\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by), \u003cb\u003eHodding Carter\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003eJason Morgan Ward\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the height of the civil rights movement in Mississippi, as hundreds of volunteers prepared for the 1964 Freedom Summer Project, the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) compiled hundreds of statements from activists and everyday citizens who endured police abuse and vigilante violence. Fifty-seven of those testimonies appear in \u003cem\u003eMississippi Black Paper\u003c\/em\u003e. The statements recount how white officials and everyday citizens employed assassinations, beatings, harassment, and petty meanness to block any change in the state's segregated status quo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe testimonies in \u003cem\u003eMississippi Black Paper\u003c\/em\u003e come from well-known civil rights heroes such as Fannie Lou Hamer, Aaron Henry, and Rita Schwerner, but the book also brings new voices and stories to the fore. Alongside these iconic names appear grassroots activists and everyday people who endured racial terror and harassment for challenging, sometimes in seemingly imperceptible ways, the state's white supremacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis new edition includes the original foreword by Reinhold Neibuhr and the original introduction by Mississippi journalist Hodding Carter III, as well as Jason Morgan Ward's new introduction that places the book in its context as a vital source in the history of the civil rights movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReinhold Niebuhr\u003c\/b\u003e (1892-1971) was an American theologian, ethicist, public intellectual, political commentator, and professor at Union Theological Seminary. \u003cb\u003eHodding Carter III\u003c\/b\u003e, Starkville, Mississippi, is an American journalist and politician. He is professor emeritus of public policy at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Carter worked for eighteen years as a reporter and editor for the \u003ci\u003eDelta Democrat-Times\u003c\/i\u003e of Greenville, Mississippi, owned by his father. \u003cb\u003eJason Morgan Ward\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of history at Mississippi State University. He is author of \u003ci\u003eHanging Bridge: Racial Violence and America's Civil Rights Century\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDefending White Democracy: The Making of a Segregationist Movement and the Remaking of Racial Politics, 1936-1965\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 162\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.37 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 07, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47431578812594,"sku":"9781496813435","price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/e51f1cf3461980b536c226a4c8e53fad.webp?v=1778592286","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/mississippi-black-paper-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}