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Mississippi: Is This America?

Mississippi: Is This America?. “This is Mississippi, the middle of the iceberg. This is a tremor in the middle of the iceberg from a stone that the builders rejected.” -- Bob Moses, 1961. 1720-1835 . 1835-1865 . 1865-1876.

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Mississippi: Is This America?

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  1. Mississippi: Is This America? “This is Mississippi, the middle of the iceberg. This is a tremor in the middle of the iceberg from a stone that the builders rejected.”-- Bob Moses, 1961

  2. 1720-1835 1835-1865

  3. 1865-1876

  4. Hiram Revels and Blanche Bruce, U.S. Senators from Mississippi, both African American

  5. Two Members of the Ku Klux Klan in Disguise, 1868

  6. Thomas Nast’s 1874 cartoon entitled “Worse Than Slavery”

  7. The “patchwork quilt” of Reconstruction and Redemption

  8. 1890 Mississippi1895 South Carolina1901 Alabama

  9. The Rise of Segregation: The Strange Career of “Jim Crow”

  10. Three Pillars of White Supremacy • Segregation • Voter disfranchisement • Extralegal violence and use of criminal justice system [concept of “legal lynching”]

  11. Voter Disfranchisement

  12. The Scourge of Lynching

  13. . . . and “Race Riots”

  14. 1940-1954

  15. Charles White.The Return of the Soldier, 1946.Pen and ink on illustration board.Prints and Photographs Division.Reproduction Number: LC-USZC4-4886 (8-19)

  16. 1954

  17. 1955

  18. “I want the whole world to see what they did to my baby. . . .”

  19. Media What role do the media play in shaping perceptions of a social movement and its antagonists?

  20. 1960

  21. Julian Bond and SNCC activists

  22. 1961

  23. CORE Freedom Riders after attacks on their Greyhound bus outside of Anniston, Alabama

  24. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy

  25. Alabama Governor John Patterson

  26. Freedom Riders arriving in Jackson, Mississippi, where they were promptly arrested

  27. “And people ask why we are down here. . . .” Fundraising advertisement published by SNCC in its newsletter, The Student Voice, in 1964

  28. 1962

  29. October 1, 1962: James Meredith (center) is escorted by Federal officials including U.S. Department of Justice Attorney John Doar (pictured on right) at the University of Mississippi.

  30. Defenders of segregation at Ole Miss

  31. U.S. Marshals arrive in Oxford in Army trucks

  32. September 30, 1962: Students riot in response to James Meredith’s enrollment at Ole Miss.

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