Introduction
John Dittmer, Local People: The Struggle in Mississippi for Civil Rights in Mississippi (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois, 1995), 60
“Rosenwald Renovation Project Granted by MS Dept. of Archives and History,” Prentiss Headlight (September, 2002)
Mike Miller, Renewing the Beloved Community: Walking Wounded Project, concept paper, Bay Area Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement (San Francisco, 2000), 2
Jeremy D. Mayer, Running on Race: Racial Politics in Presidential Campaigns 1960– 2000 (New York: Random House, 2002)
Chapter 1. Opportunity Denied
Richard Powell, The Blues Aesthetic: Black Culture and Modernism (Washington, D.C.: Washington Project for the Arts, 1989)
Prentiss Normal and Industrial Institute, “History,” Founders’ Day Program, May 8, 1980
Melerson Guy Dunham, “Message from a Bystander,” Prentiss Normal and Industrial Institute, Founders’ Day Program, May 8, 1980
Gary Pettus, “The Pride of Prentiss: Graduates Honor 100-Year Legacy,” Clarion-Ledger, May 6, 2007
Jaman Matthews, “Remembrance of Days Past: The Prentiss Institute at 100,” Heifer International Newsletter, 2005-06
Jean Gordon, “Everybody has a Story to Tell: National Oral History Project Collects Conversations (Mabel Middleton and Paul Purdy on Prentiss Institute),” Clarion-Ledger, January 17, 2007
Angela Stewart, archivist, Margaret Walker Alexander National Research Center, Jackson tate University, Interview on the Subject of Prentiss Institute and Founders Jonas and Bertha Johnson, September 20, 2010
C. James Fleming and C.E. Burckel, eds., Who’s Who in Colored America, (Yonkers-on- Hudson, New York: C. E. Burckel & Associates 1950)
Kelefa Sannah, “The Wizard: Before There Was a Black American President, Black America Had a President,” The New Yorker, Feb. 2, 2009
Booker T. Washington, W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Introduction, Up From Slavery, (Boston: Bedford/St. MartinPress), 22–27
Phyllis Norwood, e-mail interview on subject of Prentiss Normal and Industrial Institute, July 14, 2010
Neil McMillen, Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1990), 11–113
Ralph Ginzburg, 100 Years of Lynchings (Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 1988)
Arthur F. Raper, The Tragedy of Lynching, (University of North Carolina Press, 2009)
Aaron Henry with Constance Curry, Aaron Henry: The Fire Ever Burning (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000)
Eric Foner, Manning Marable, eds., Herbert Aptheker on Race and Democracy: A Reader (Urbana: University of Illinois, 2006), 158
Susan Klopfer, Where Rebels Roost: Mississippi Civil Rights Revisited (Lulu.com, 2005)
Pete Daniel, Eric Foner, eds., Standing at the Crossroads: Southern Life Since 1900 (New York: Hill and Wang, 1986), 155–165
John Dittmer, Local People: The Struggle in Mississippi for Civil Rights in Mississippi (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois, 1995), 6–41, 44, 46–54
Myrie Evers-Williams, Manning Marable, eds. Autobiography of Medgar Evers: A Hero’s Life and Legacy Revealed Through His Writings, Letters, and Speeches (New York: Basic Civitas Books, 2005), 94, 122
H. D. DARBY, on behalf of himself and others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. James DANIEL, Circuit Clerk of Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi, and Joe T. Patterson, Attorney General of the State of Mississippi, Defendants. Civil Action No. 2748 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, Jackson Division. November 6, 1958.
Chapter 2. The Environment
Zora Neale Hurston, Carla Kaplan, ed., Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States (New York: Harper-Collins, 2002)
Lucius Outlaw, On Race and Philosophy (New York: Routledge, 1996)
James Brief, Hometown Mississippi, 3rd edition, (Town Square Books, 2000)
Joyce Ladner, The Ties That Bind: Timeless Values for African American Families (John Wiley & Sons, 1998)
Karl Fleming, Son of the Rough South: An Uncivil Memoir (New York: PublicAffairs, 2005)
Chapter 3. Education of the Mississippi Negro
Clarice Campbell, Oscar Rogers, Jr., Mississippi: The View from Tougaloo (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1979)
John Dittmer, Local People: The Struggle in Mississippi for Civil Rights in Mississippi (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois, 1995), 28-30, 86-89
Minion Morrison, Black Political Mobilization: Leadership, Power and Mass Behavior (Albany: State University of New York, 1987), 68-69
Jeff Forret, Race Relations at the Margins: Slaves and Poor Whites in the Antebellum Southern Countryside (Louisiana State University, 2006)
Mike Miller, Renewing the Beloved Community: Walking Wounded Project, concept paper, Bay Area Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement (San Francisco, 2000), 2
Barbara Ransby, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (University of North Carolina Press, 2003)
Chapter 4. Cornerstone: Tougaloo
Chris Asch, The Senator and the Sharecropper: The Freedom Struggles of James O. East-land and Fannie Lou Hamer (New Press, 2008)
Charles Payne, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle (University Press of California, 1997)
Charles Evers and Andrew Szanton, Have No Fear: The Charles Evers Story (Wiley, 1996)
Tom Dent, Southern Journey: A Return to the Civil Rights Movement (University of Georgia, 2001)
Chapter 5. Becoming a Freedom Rider
Raymond Arsenault, Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006)
David Halberstam, The Children, (New York, Random House, 1998)
Attack dogs trained by Nazi storm trooper (Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Record # 2-72-1-104-1-2-1).
Chapter 6. In the Stillness of the Midnight
Mary Hamilton, Freedom Riders Speak for Themselves, (pamphlet, 1961) Posted Sept. 13, 2010 at www.mississippifreedom50th.com/blog
Home of Mrs. Willie Mae Cotton was bombed, McComb, Mississippi (Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Record # 9-31-146).
A pawn in this game was Katherine Pleune (Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Record # 2-140-3-1-2-1-1 and 2-55-4-65-1-1-1)
Samuel BAILEY, Joseph Broadwater and Burnett L. Jacob, Plaintiffs, v. Joe T. PATTERSON, Attorney General of the State of Mississippi, The City of Jackson, Mississippi, Allen C. Thompson, Mayor, Douglas L. Luckey, Commissioner, Thomas B. Marshall, Commissioner, W.D. Rayfield, Chief of Police of the City of Jackson, Mississippi, Jackson Municipal Airport Authority, Continental Southern Lines, Inc., Southern Greyhound Lines, Illinois Central Railroad, Inc., Jackson City Lines, Inc., and Cicero Carr, Defendants. Civ. A. No. 3133, United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, Jackson Division. April 7, 1962.
Chapter 7. Friends of the Spirit
Horace Newcomb, professor, University of Texas at Austin, “The Least of These: Ed King’s Face, Joan Baez, and George Wallace,” reflections on Paul Stekler’s documentary George Wallace: Settin’ the Woods on Fire (March 10, 2000)
Dorie Ladner, Interviews July 18 and 25, 2010
Denise Nicholas, Freshwater Road (New York: Pocket Star, 2005)
Chapter 8. Disillusioned
Myrie Evers-Williams, Manning Marable, eds. Autobiography of Medgar Evers: A Hero’s
Life and Legacy Revealed Through His Writings, Letters, and Speeches (New York: Basic Civitas Books, 2005), 262
Charles March, The Last Days
Pat Watters, Down to Now (1993)
Chapter 9. The Doors of the Church Are Closed
W. Astor Kirk, Desegregation of the Methodist Church Polity: Reform Movements That
Ended Segregation (Rose-Dog Books, 2005) John Salter, Hunterbear
Chapter 10. Chicago Bound
Howell Raines, My Soul is Rested, (New York: Penguin, 1983)
Mike Miller, Renewing the Beloved Community: Walking Wounded Project, concept paper, Bay Area Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement (San Francisco, 2000), 2
Peter Jan Honigsberg, Crossing Border Street, (Berkeley, California: University of California, 2000)