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68 “The mass media are”: SNCC Papers, reel 38.
68 “ for we think it is important”: Ibid.
68 “a clear and present danger”: Ibid., reel 40.
69 “I can say there will be a hot summer”: Congressional Record 111, pt. 10 (June 22, 1965): H 14002.
69 “They don’t arrest white people in Mississippi”: Ibid., H 14003.
69 “I was”: Ibid., H 14008.
69 “incidents of brutality and terror”: SNCC Papers, reel 38.
69 “nearly incredible that those people”: Dittmer, Local People, p. 239.
69 “Sojourner Motor Fleet”: Lewis, Walking with the Wind, p. 259.
69 “We’re sitting this one out”: Ibid., p. 249.
70 “danger to local Negroes”: SNCC Papers, reel 38.
70 “more convinced than ever”: Mary King, Freedom Song: A Personal Story of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement (New York: Quill/William Morrow & Co., 1987), pp. 226, 312.
70 “lead people into the fire”: Ibid., p. 313.
70 “No one can be rational about death”: SNCC Papers, reel 38.
70 “is so deeply ingrained”: King, Freedom Song, p. 318.
70 “When whites come into a project”: SNCC Papers, reel 38.
71 “to take the revolution one step further”: Ibid.
71 “We have a responsibility”: King, Freedom Song, p. 319.
72 “It was so quick”: Tillinghast, interview, November 28, 2007.
73 “I was petrified”: Ibid.
73 “rather get arrested in Greenville”: Sugarman, Stranger at the Gates, p. 167.
73 “Many Mississippi towns were predatory”: Tillinghast, interview, November 28, 2007.
74 “Mississippi has a black and inky night”: Ibid.
75 “said they knew nothing at all about the case”: SNCC Papers, reel 39.
76 “Keep me informed of what happens”: Ibid.
CHAPTER FOUR: “The Decisive Battlefield for America”
77 “handle the niggers and the outsiders”: William Bradford Huie, Three Lives for Mississippi (New York: WCC Books, 1964, 1965), p. 132.
77 “one of the wettest dry counties”: Florence Mars, Witness in Philadelphia (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1977), p. 18.
78 “ folks yah met on the street”: Huie, Three Lives, p. 130.
78 “We don’t bother no white folks”: Ibid., p. 140.
78 “reddish to vote”: Raines, My Soul Is Rested, p. 260.
78 “You don’t know me”: William M. Kunstler, My Life as a Radical Lawyer, with Sheila Isenberg (New York: Birch Lane Press, 1994), p. 140.
79 “ for investigation”: Cagin and Dray, We Are Not Afraid, p. 18.
79 “lay low”: Williams, journal.
79 “Mississippi is closed, locked”: Belfrage, Freedom Summer, p. 10.
79 “There is an analogy”: Ibid., p. 11.
79 “Yesterday morning, three of our people”: Ibid.
80 “You are not responsible”: Taylor Branch, Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998), p. 363.
80 “that Communist Jew Nigger lover”: Cagin and Dray, We Are Not Afraid, p. 274.
80 “ full of life and ideas”: Huie, Three Lives, pp. 46, 54.
80 “More than any white person”: Ibid., p. 114.
81 “I am now so thoroughly identified”: Cagin and Dray, We Are Not Afraid, p. 259.
81 “I would feel guilty”: New York Times, June 25, 1964, p. 18.
81 “Mississippi’s best hope”: Cagin and Dray, We Are Not Afraid, p. 261.
81 “We’re actually pretty lucky here”: Woodley, “Recollection of Michael Schwerner,” p. 23.
81 “I just want you to know”: “Interview with Civil Rights Activist Rita Bender,” in Microsoft Encarta Premium 2007 (Redmond, Wash.: Microsoft, 2006).
82 “You must be that Communist-Jew”: Cagin and Dray, We Are Not Afraid, p. 274.
82 “That Jewboy is dead!”: Ball, Murder in Mississippi, p. 32.
82 “a marked man”: Huie, Three Lives, p. 81.
82 “I belong right here in Mississippi”: Ibid., p. 117.
82 “Mickey could count on Jim”: Ibid., p. 95.
82 “Mama,” he said, “I believe I done found”: “Mississippi—‘Everybody’s Scared,’ ” Newsweek, July 6, 1964, p. 15.
83 “a born activist”: Carolyn Goodman, “Andrew Goodman—1943-1964,” in Erenrich, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle, p. 321.
83 “Because this is the most important thing”: New York Times, June 25, 1964.
83 “I want to go off to war” and “a great idea”: Carolyn