Freedom Summer - Bruce W. Watson [182]
48 “Good morning, niggers” and “every last Anglo Saxon one of you”: Paul Hendrickson, Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003), pp. 9-10.
48 “If we in America”: Dittmer, Local People, 57.
48 “There’s open season on Negroes now”: Ibid., p. 58.
48 “From that point on”: Raines, My Soul Is Rested, p. 235.
48 “It was the so-called dumb people”: Youth of the Rural Organizing and Cultural Center, Minds Stayed on Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle in the Rural South, an Oral History (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1991), p. 59.
49 “that damn few white men”: Winson Hudson and Constance Curry, Mississippi Harmony: Memoirs of a Freedom Fighter (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), p. 37.
49 “invalid, unconstitutional, and not of lawful effect”: Dittmer, Local People, pp. 59-60.
49 “working hand-in-glove with Communist sympathizers”: Sokol, There Goes My Everything, p. 88.
50 “Sorry, Cable Trouble”: Dittmer, Local People, pp. 65-66.
50 “The following program”: Belfrage, Freedom Summer, 109.
50 “Negro cow-girl”: Dan Classen, Watching Jim Crow: The Struggles over Mississippi TV, 1955-1969 (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004), pp. 101-3.
50 “a veiled argument for racial intermarriage”: Mark Harris, Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood (New York: Penguin Press, 2008), p. 57.
51 “intellectual straight-jacketing”: New York Times, June 18, 1964.
51 “who will lynch you from a low tree”: Belfrage, Freedom Summer, p. 56.
51 “private Gestapo”: Lynne Olson, Freedom’s Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970 (New York: Scribner, 2001), p. 327.
51 “Today we live in fear”: Silver, Mississippi, p. 39.
51 “assdom”: John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me, 2nd ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1961), p. 82.
51 “Join the Glorious Citizens Clan”: McMillen, Citizens’ Council, p. 257.
51 “goons” and “Hateists”: Ira B. Harkey Jr., The Smell of Burning Crosses: An Autobiography of a Mississippi Newspaperman (Jacksonville, Fla.: Delphi Press, 1967), p. 126.
52 “We hate violence”: Silver, Mississippi, p. 46.
52 “The project is concerned with construction”: COFO letter to Mississippi sheriffs, May 21, 1964, Hillegas Collection.
52 “communists, sex perverts”: Yasuhiro Katagiri, The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission: Civil Rights and States’ Rights (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001), p. 159.
52 “It will be a long hot summer”: Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Files, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Miss. (hereafter, MDAH) SCR ID# 9-31-1-43-1-1-1.
52 “The white girls have been going around”: James L. Dickerson, Dixie’s Dirty Secret (Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1998), p. 91.
53 “where black and white will walk together”: MDAH SCR ID# 9-32-0-1-2-1-1.
53 “carpetbagger” and “scalawag”: Carter, South Strikes Back, pp. 143, 191.
53 “I know we’ve had a hundred years”: Von Hoffman, Mississippi Notebook, p. 3.
53 “In my life span”: Jackson Clarion-Ledger, June 16, 1964.
53 thirty thousand “invaders”: Los Angeles Times, June 18, 1964.
53 Negro gangs were “ forming to rape white women”: Tupelo Journal, June 19, 1964.
54 “This is just a taste”: Chicago Tribune, June 9, 1964.
54 “Don’t do no violence”: Atwater, “If We Can Crack,” p. 18.
54 “Guidelines for Self-protection and Preservation”: Hodding Carter, So the Heffners Left McComb (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1965), pp. 69-71.
54 “This summer, within a very few days”: Don Whitehead, Attack on Terror: The FBI Against the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1970), pp. 6-8.
54 “I hear that this summer”: Suzanne Marrs, Eudora Welty: A Biography (Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt, 2005), p. 309.
54 “increased activity in weapon shipments”: Simon Wendt, The Spirit and the Shotgun: Armed Resistance and the Struggle for Civil Rights (Gainesville: