Freedom Summer - Bruce W. Watson [183]
CHAPTER THREE: Freedom Street
56 “unpleasant, to say the least”: Chris Williams, correspondence, June 21, 1964.
56 “Impeach Earl Warren”: Frederick M. Wirt, Politics of Southern Equality: Law and Social Change in a Mississippi County (Chicago: Aldine, 1970), p. 136.
57 “so big they could stand flatfooted”: Karl Fleming, Son of the Rough South: An Uncivil Memoir (New York: Public Affairs, 2005, p. 361).
57 “We’re gonna give you a hard time”: Williams, correspondence, June 21, 1964.
58 “that you did not come down”: New York Times, June 21, 1964, p. 64.
58 “Their demeanor, how they treated us”: Mulford and Field, Freedom on My Mind.
58 “He thinks out his moves carefully”: Williams, correspondence, June 21, 1964.
58 “something I had to live with”: Robert Miles memorial service, program.
59 “on account of your father”: Congressional Record 111, pt. 10 (June 22, 1965): H 13929.
59 “I don’t see why they don’t let us swim”: Williams, correspondence, June 30, 1964.
59 “Y’all gonna hear”: Williams, personal interview, February 1, 2008.
60 “Have you seen my girls yet?”: Martinez, Letters from Mississippi, p. 51.
60 “skinny” or “pretty”: Ibid.
60 “We’re mighty glad” and “It’s a right fine Christian thing”: Sugarman, Stranger at the Gates, p. 53.
60 “There they is!”: Ibid., p. 50.
60 “I’ve waited eighty years”: Martinez, Letters from Mississippi, p. 51.
61 “There are people here”: Ibid., p. 61.
61 “I could kick down”: Ibid., p. 64.
61 “the most appalling example”: McAdam, Freedom Summer, p. 87.
61 “a fiery and fast moving old woman”: Martinez, Letters from Mississippi, pp. 47-48.
62 “I was really surprised”: Mulford and Field, Freedom on My Mind.
62 “Greetings from Batesville, Miss.”: Williams, correspondence, June 21, 1964.
63 “some good old southern bourbon”: Ibid.
63 “Had Moses not wanted it to happen”: Raines, My Soul Is Rested, p. 287.
63 “either an act of madness”: Carmichael, Ready for Revolution, p. 350.
63 “We had worked so hard”: Watkins, interview, June 16, 2008.
63 “This was Bob Moses talking”: Carmichael, Ready for Revolution, p. 350.
63 “taken over the Jackson office”: Dittmer, Local People, p. 208.
63 “a bunch of Yalies”: Ibid., p. 209.
63 “If we’re trying to break down”: Zinn, SNCC, p. 188.
63 “We don’t have much to gain”: Nicolaus Mills, Like a Holy Crusade: Mississippi 1964—The Turning of the Civil Rights Movement in America (New York: Knopf, 1992), p. 58.
64 “get rid of the whites”: Burner, And Gently He Shall Lead Them, p. 129.
64 “all black”: Raines, My Soul Is Rested, p. 287.
64 “a question of rational people”: Burner, And Gently He Shall Lead Them, p. 129.
64 “How large a force”: Dittmer, Local People, p. 208.
64 “Too difficult,” “huge influx” and “sociological research”: SNCC Papers, reel 38.
64 “You killed my husband!”: Branch, Parting the Waters, p. 510.
64 “when you’re dead”: Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), Mississippi Black Paper: Fifty-seven Negro and White Citizens’ Testimony of Police Brutality (New York: Random House, 1965), p. 37.
65 “For me, it was as if everything”: Moses and Cobb, Radical Equations, p. 76.
65 “other than to dedicate”: Bob Moses, personal interview, December 10, 2008.
65 “The staff had been deadlocked”: Moses and Cobb, Radical Equations, p. 76.
65 “Notes on Teaching,” “Techniques for Field Work,” and “The General Condition”: SNCC Papers, reels 39, 40, 64.
67 “Niggers . . . Beatnicks”: SNCC Papers, reel 38.
67 “Would you please give”: SNCC Papers, reel 64.
67 “ for the good work”: Ibid.
67 “Robert Moses, 708 Avenue N”: Fischer, “Small Band,” p. 26.
67 “I’m sorry it isn’t more”: SNCC Papers, reel 64.
68 “hooking people up”: Constance Curry, Joan C. Browning, Dorothy Dawson Burlage, Penny Patch, Theresa Del Pozzo, Sue Thrasher, Elaine DeLott Baker, Emmie Schrader Adams, and Casey Hayden, Deep in Our Hearts: Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000),