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95 “a second Reconstruction”: New York Times, June 26, 1964.
95 “firm, positive statement” and “will be on the hands”: Tupelo Journal, June 25, 1964; and Washington Post, June 25, 1964.
95 “I’m not going to send troops”: Randall B. Woods, LBJ: Architect of American Ambition (New York: Free Press, 2006), p. 479.
96 “We throw two or three”: “The Limpid Shambles of Violence,” Life, July 3, 1964, p. 35.
96 “Why don’t you just float”: Huie, Three Lives, p. 39.
96 “You know damn well our law”: Mars, Witness in Philadelphia, p. 98.
96 “The idea of these people”: Ibid.
96 “if it was boiled down to gravy”: Huie, Three Lives, p. 195.
96 “Bloody Neshoba”: Ball, Murder in Mississippi, p. 64.
96 “I believe them jokers”: Mulford and Field, Freedom on My Mind.
96 “to all parents everywhere”: New York Times, June 26, 1964.
97 “a Negro, a friend”: Cagin and Dray, We Are Not Afraid, p. 366.
97 “I’m just hoping”: New York Times, June 25, 1964.
97 “For God’s sake”: Cagin and Dray, We Are Not Afraid, p. 366.
97 “We’re now looking for bodies”: New York Times, June 25, 1964.
97 “I am going to find my husband”: Marco Williams, dir., Ten Days That Unexpectedly Changed America—Freedom Summer (New York: History Channel, 2006).
97 “that scores of federal marshals”: Cagin and Dray, We Are Not Afraid, p. 354.
97 “I’m sure Wallace is much more important”: Huie, Three Lives, p. 203.
97 “Governor Wallace and I”: Robert Zellner, “Notes on Meeting Gov. Johnson,” June 25, 1964, COFO documents, Hillegas Collection.
97 “that you and Governor Wallace here”: Robert Zellner, The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement, with Constance Curry (Montgomery, Ala.: NewSouth Books, 2008), p. 250.
98 “I don’t want your sympathy!”: Los Angeles Times, June 26, 1964.
98 “What in the goddamn hell”: Cagin and Dray, We Are Not Afraid, p. 360.
98 “Well, at least he still has a wife”: Ibid.
98 “as near to approximating a police state”: Silver, Mississippi, p. 151.
99 “A wave of untrained”: SNCC Papers, reel 38.
99 “This is for the three in Philadelphia”: Chicago Tribune, June 27, 1964.
99 “swarm[ing] upon our land”: Jackson Clarion-Ledger, July 7, 1964.
99 “Where, oh where”: Turner Catledge, “My Life and ‘The Times,’ ” in Mississippi Writers—Reflections of Childhood and Youth, vol. 2, Non-fiction, ed. Dorothy Abbott (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1986), p. 85.
99 “Be frank with you, Sitton”: Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff, The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation (New York: Random House, 2007), p. 360.
99 “Beware, good Negro citizens”: Mississippi Summer Project, running summary of incidents, transcript, USM (hereafter, COFO incidents).
99 “Want us to do to you”: New York Times, June 27, 1964.
100 “You dig it?”: Hodes Papers, SHSW.
100 “like a funeral parlor”: Martinez, Letters from Mississippi, p. 33.
100 “near psychosis,” or just “character disorders”: Robert Coles, Farewell to the South (Boston: Little, Brown, 1972), pp. 246-47.
100 “Suddenly hundreds of young Americans”: Ibid., p. 269.
100 “You know what we’re all doing”: McAdam, Freedom Summer, p. 71.
100 Dear Mom and Dad: Martinez, Letters from Mississippi, p. 26.
101 Dear Folks: Ibid., p. 27.
101 “The kids are dead”: Belfrage, Freedom Summer, pp. 25-27.
101 “In our country we have some real evil”: Ibid.
102 “I would have gone anywhere”: Mulford and Field, Freedom on My Mind.
102 “If someone in Nazi Germany”: Paul Cowan, The Making of an Un-American: A Dialogue with Experience (New York: Viking, 1970), p. 29.
102 “You’re killing your mother!”: Heather Tobis Booth, personal interview, October 8, 2007.
103 “Be strong and of good courage”: New York Times, June 29, 1964.
103 “racial holocaust”: New York Times, June 28, 1964.
104 “I don’t know what all the fuss is about”: Belfrage, Freedom Summer, p. 29.
CHAPTER FIVE: “It Is Sure Enough Changing”
106 “History,” “Reference,” “Language,” “Crud”: Sugarman,