Freedom Summer - Bruce W. Watson [185]
83 “We couldn’t turn our backs”: New York Times, June 25, 1964.
83 “I’m scared”: Carolyn Goodman Papers, SHSW.
84 “Don’t worry,” he told them: Mills, Like a Holy Crusade, p. 103.
84 Dear Mom and Dad: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Mississippi Burning Case, File 44-25706 (hereafter, MIBURN), part 3, p. 53.
84 “issuing dictatorial orders”: Association of Tenth Amendment Conservatives brochure, MDAH SCR ID# 2-61-1-95-2-1-1.
85 “What’re you doing here?”: COFO, Mississippi Black Paper, pp. 67-68.
85 “sons of bitches”: Branch, Pillar of Fire, p. 143.
85 “niggers on a voter drive”: Zinn, SNCC, p. 204.
85 “arrest any Mississippi law enforcement officer”: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/meiklejohn/meik-8_2/meik-8_2-4.html.
85 “cooling off period”: Payne, I’ve Got the Light, p. 108.
86 “a true Marxist-Leninist”: Nick Kotz, Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws That Changed America (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005), p. 103.
86 “We do not wet nurse”: Ball, Murder in Mississippi, p. 57.
86 “Which side is the federal government on?”: Zinn, SNCC, p. 215.
86 “There is a street in Itta Bena”: Martinez, Letters from Mississippi, p. 192.
86 “Good evening. Three young civil rights workers”: Walter Cronkite, “History Lessons: Mississippi 1964—Civil Rights and Unrest,” June 16, 2005, http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=4706688&m=4706689.
87 “the other Philadelphia”: New York Times, June 29, 1964.
88 “ fair-minded, Christian people”: Ibid.
89 “They’re sending them in by buses”: Michael R. Beschloss, ed., Taking Charge: The Johnson White House Tapes, 1963-1964 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997), p. 313.
89 “I asked Hoover two weeks ago”: Ibid., pp. 425-26.
89 “I’m afraid that if I start”: Ibid., p. 431.
89 “I think they got picked up”: Ibid., pp. 431-32.
90 “I don’t believe there’s three missing”: Ibid., p. 434.
90 “Are they all right?”: Goodman, “My Son Didn’t Die,” p. 164.
90 “changed from a public figure”: Ibid.
91 “Burned Car Clue”: Washington Post, June 24, 1964.
91 “Dulles Will Direct Rights Trio Hunt”: Los Angeles Times, June 24, 1964.
91 “Wreckage Raises New Fears”: New York Times, June 24, 1964.
91 “They had no business down here”: Mars, Witness in Philadelphia, pp. 87-88.
91 “Farmer, don’t go over there”: James Farmer, Lay Bare the Heart: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement (New York: New American Library, 1985), p. 273.
92 “Where do you think you’re goin’?”: Cagin and Dray, We Are Not Afraid, p. 343.
92 “hid somewhere trying to get”: New York Times, June 23, 1964.
92 “destroy evidence”: Lewis, Walking with the Wind, p. 257.
92 “If there has been a crime”: Ibid.
92 “We don’t want anything to happen”: Farmer, Lay Bare the Heart, p. 276.
93 “It’s a shame that national concern”: Lewis, Walking with the Wind, p. 258.
93 “I imagine they’re in that lake”: Beschloss, Taking Charge, p. 440.
93 “We are basically a law abiding nation”: New York Times, June 24, 1964.
93 “We need the FBI before the fact”: Belfrage, Freedom Summer, p. 15.
94 “knowed for mean”: Carmichael, Ready for Revolution, p. 377.
94 “praying for sunrise”: Ibid.
94 “those same peckerwoods”: Ibid., p. 378.
94 “Ain’t no telling”: Cleveland Sellers and Robert Terrell, The River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and Death of SNCC (New York: William Morrow, 1973), p. 88.
94 “So and so said”: Charles Cobb Jr., personal interview, July 16, 2008.
95 “would have an irretrievable effect”: “Mississippi—Summer of 1964: Troubled State, Troubled Time,” Newsweek, July 13, 1964, p. 20.
95 “a local matter for local law enforcement”: New York Times, June 25, 1964, p. 20.
95 “a thousand of these youngsters”: Kotz, Judgment Days, p. 171.
95 “the chiefs of police”: Ibid.
95 “this breathtakingly admirable group”: Washington Post, June 25, 1964.