1. See Eric Foner, A Short History of Reconstruction (Harper & Row, 1990).
2. James Meredith, with William Doyle, A Mission from God (Atria Books, 2012), pp. 43–44.
3. Carol V. R. George, One Mississippi, Two Mississippi (Oxford University Press, 2015), p. 208.
4. Susan Glisson, “Everything Old Is New Again: Storytelling and Dialogue as Tools for Community Change in Mississippi,” Oral History Forum d’histoire orale 34 (2014), p. 3.
5. George, One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, p. 229.
6. Howard Zinn, The Southern Mystique (Knopf, 1964), p. 341.
7. Meredith, A Mission from God, p. 234.
8. Ibid., p. 239.
9. Ibid., p. 235.
10. Ibid., p. 236.
11. Timothy Ryback, “What Ole Miss Can Teach Universities About Grappling with Their Pasts,” The Atlantic, September 19, 2017.
12. These statements were made by members of the audience at the meeting.
13. Jean Améry, “Aufklärung als Philosophia perennis,” in Werke, vol. 6: Aufsätze zur Philosophie, ed. Gerhard Scheit (Klett-Cotta, 2004), p. 557.
14. Meredith, A Mission from God, p. 222.
15. Ibid., p. 27.
16. Ibid., p. 33.
17. Ibid., p. 44.
18. Ibid., p. 16.
19. Ibid., p. 41.
20. Ibid., p. 55.
21. Ibid., p. 89.