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106 the Ruleville Freedom School was ready for classes: Ibid., pp. 107-12.
106 looked “exactly” like Schwerner: Jackson Clarion-Ledger, July 1, 1964.
106 “dirty looks”: Meridian Star, June 30, 1964.
106 “running down all leads on the cranks”: Beschloss, Taking Charge, p. 438.
107 “let off it”: MIBURN 3-96.
107 “Negro boy”: MIBURN 3-93.
107 “got what was coming to them”: MIBURN, 8-75.
107 “You a damn liar”: New York Times, June 28, 1964.
108 “You dig into yourself ”: Moses and Cobb, Radical Equations, p. 59.
108 “While professing to believe in ‘equality’ ”: Jackson Clarion-Ledger, June 23, 1964.
108 “I find more resentment”: Christian Science Monitor, June 30, 1964.
108 “It’s the best thing that’s happened”: John Hersey, “A Life for a Vote,” Saturday Evening Post, September 26, 1964; reprinted in Library of America, Reporting Civil Rights, p. 223.
109 “as if I was some strange god”: Coles, Farewell to the South, pp. 250-51.
109 “Now it wasn’t just these ‘Negroes’ ”: Fred Bright Winn, personal interview, November 13, 2007.
109 “We Shall Overcome”: Fred Bright Winn, correspondence, June 15, 1964.
110 “My spirit lives on”: Ibid.
110 “a young twenty-year-old”: Winn, interview, November 13, 2007.
110 “broke the ice”: Ibid.
110 “There were people in Mississippi”: Ibid.
110 “If the Klan gets a hold of you”: Ibid.
111 “scarier than shit”: Ibid.
111 “It’s like eating sandpaper slugs”: Ibid.
111 “Dad, I hope you realize”: Winn, correspondence, June 1964.
111 “I’m sorry, Mr. President”: Greenburg, Circle of Trust, p. 191.
112 “June 30—Page 7 Holly Springs”: WATS Line, June 30, 1964.
113 “You Are in Occupied Mississippi”: Belfrage, Freedom Summer, p. 52.
113 “Violence hangs overhead like dead air”: Martinez, Letters from Mississippi, p. 168.
113 “to walk along the street”: Rims Barber, Oral History, USM.
113 “You’re both purty gals”: Lake, “Last Summer in Mississippi,” p. 243; and Ellen Lake Papers, SHSW.
113 “Which one of them coons”: Wesley C. Hogan, Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC’s Dream for a New America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007), p. 164.
113 “broke bread with”: Hodding Carter III, e-mail interview, September 26, 2008.
114 “I was adamantly against”: Ibid.
114 “race mixing invaders”: Greenwood Commonwealth, June 30, 1964.
114 “leftist hep cat students”: Jackson Clarion-Ledger, June 29, 1964.
114 “nutniks”: Carthage Carthaginian, July 2, 1964.
114 “unshaven and unwashed trash”: David R. Davies, ed., The Press and Race: Mississippi Journalists Confront the Movement (Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2001), p. 45; and Katagiri, Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, p. 163. 114 “thirty college students”: Lexington Advertiser, July 2, 1964.
114 “doing irreparable damage”: Jackson Clarion-Ledger, July 1, 1964.
114 “reckless walking”: Martinez, Letters from Mississippi, p. 147.
115 “Nobody Would Dare Bomb”: New York Times Sunday Magazine, July 5, 1964, p. 6.
116 “Know all roads”: SNCC Papers, reel 40.
116 “surviving and just walking around”: Raines, My Soul Is Rested, pp. 239-40.
116 “The whole scene”: Martinez, Letters from Mississippi, p. 55.
116 “I just can’t get my mind on all that”: “Mississippi—Summer of 1964: Troubled State, Troubled Time,” Newsweek, July 13, 1964, p. 18.
116 “I don’t want to mess with that mess”: Belfrage, Freedom Summer, p. 50.
116 “I can’t sign no paper”: Martinez, Letters from Mississippi, p. 69.
117 “Did that nigger invite you in here?”: Jay Shetterly and Geoff Cowan, personal interview, January 15, 2008; and “Mississippi—Summer of 1964,” 19.
117 “a somewhat neurotic redhead”: Williams, journal.
117 “Goddamn motherfucker, pissed me right off!”: Claire O’Connor, personal interview, January 5, 2008.
117 “kind of goofy”: Ibid.
118 “our great leader”: Williams, journal.
119 “agitators . . . come to Mississippi”: Ibid.
119 “He said they ought to send me home”: Williams, correspondence.
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