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29 “It’s not working”: Tracy Sugarman, Stranger at the Gates: A Summer in Mississippi (New York: Hill and Wang, 1966), p. 8.
29 “No one should go anywhere alone”: SNCC Papers, reel 39.
29 “We have talked about interracial dating”: “The Invaders,” Newsweek, June 29, 1964, p. 25.
30 “You should be ashamed!”: Dittmer, Local People, p. 243.
30 “The flash point”: Mulford and Field, Freedom on My Mind.
30 “Ask Jimmie over there what he thinks”: “Mississippi—Summer of 1964: Troubled State, Troubled Time,” Newsweek, July 13, 1964, p. 20.
31 “The crisis is past, I think”: William Hodes Papers, State Historical Society of Wisconsin (hereafter, SHSW).
31 “When you turn the other cheek”: Nicholas Von Hoffman, Mississippi Notebook (New York: David White, 1964), p. 31.
31 “You must understand that nonviolence”: Sugarman, Stranger at the Gates, p. 28.
31 “Your legs, your thighs”: Cagin and Dray, We Are Not Afraid, p. 33.
31 “I got me a twen’y foot pit out bay-ack”: Muriel Tillinghast, personal interview, November 28, 2007.
32 “morally rotten outcasts of the White race”: SNCC Papers, reel 38.
32 “We were renegades”: Tillinghast, interview, November 28, 2007.
32 “NAG’s local Mississippi”: Stokely Carmichael, Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture), with Ekwueme Michael Thelwell (New York: Scribner, 2003), pp. 337-48.
32 “I did not come out of a family”: Tillinghast, interview, November 28, 2007.
32 “no bigger than a match stick”: Ibid.
33 “a distant well of human woe”: Ibid.
33 “He would tell me about”: Ibid.
33 “At NAG meetings, I was informed”: Ibid.
34 “a sponge”: Ibid.
34 “brought us to the stark reality”: Tillinghast, interview, October 31, 2007.
34 “It was esprit de corps”: Ibid.
34 “As we depart for that troubled state”: Dittmer, Local People, p. 239.
34 “Part of it is the American dream”: Atwater, “If We Can Crack,” p. 18.
34 “The injustices to the Negro in Mississippi”: Los Angeles Times, June 20, 1964.
35 “a long, hot summer,” and “racial explosion”: “Mississippi Girds for Its Summer of Discontent,” U.S. News & World Report, June 15, 1964, p. 46.
35 “guerilla war”: Joseph Alsop, “The Gathering Storm,” Hartford Courant, June 17, 1964.
35 “The guy from Life was a real jerk”: Williams, journal, pp. 10-11.
35 “Look magazine is searching”: Martinez, Letters from Mississippi, p. 22.
35 “Now get this in your heads”: Cagin and Dray, We Are Not Afraid, p. 31.
36 “real heroes”: New York Times, June 20, 1964.
36 “What are you going to do”: Len Holt, The Summer That Didn’t End (New York: William Morrow, 1965), p. 50.
36 “We can protect the Vietnamese”: National Observer, n.d., Hillegas Collection.
36 “We don’t do that”: Carmichael, Ready for Revolution, p. 370.
36 “Dear People at home”: Martinez, Letters from Mississippi, p. 10.
37 “Before You Leave Oxford”: New York Times, June 21, 1964.
37 “We hit the Mississippi state line”: Tillinghast, interview, November 28, 2007.
CHAPTER TWO: “Not Even Past”
38 “more or less bunk”: Justin Kaplan, ed., Familiar Quotations, 16th ed. (Boston: Little, Brown, 1992), p. 499n.
38 “The past is never dead”: William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun (New York: Penguin Books, 1953), p. 81.
39 “Mississippians don’t know”: Geoffrey C. Ward, Ric Burns, and Ken Burns, The Civil War: An Illustrated History (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990), p. 212.
39 “Meridian, with its depots”: Shelby Foote, The Civil War: A Narrative—Fredericksburg to Meridian (New York: Random House, 1963), p. 926.
39 “Chimneyville”: John Ray Skates, Mississippi: A Bicentennial History (New York: W. W. Norton, 1979), p. 108.
40 “Things was hurt”: Eric Foner, A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863- 1877 (New York: Harper & Row, 1990), p. 86.
41 “The whole public are tired out”: William C. Harris, The Day of the Carpetbagger: Republican Reconstruction in Mississippi (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979), p. 668.
41 “Democrats