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119 “hard on the Negroes”: Mars, Witness in Philadelphia, p. 76.
119 “Nigger, do you know”: Cagin and Dray, We Are Not Afraid, p. 255.
120 “I have no proof”: Ibid., p. 340.
120 “Now come on sheriff”: MDAH SCR ID# 1-8-0-18-2-1-1.
120 “number one suspect”: Jackson Clarion-Ledger, December 3, 2007, p. 4A.
121 “Now if I were a teacher”: James Baldwin, “A Talk to Teachers,” in Critical Issues in Education, ed. Eugene F. Provenzo (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 2006), p. 203.
121 “nigger food”: SNCC Papers, reel 39.
121 “leaders of tomorrow”: New York Times, July 3, 1964.
121 “close the springs of racial poison”: Los Angeles Times, July 5, 1964.
121 “time of testing”: Beschloss, Taking Charge, p. 450.
122 “tear gas pen guns”: Jackson Clarion-Ledger, July 2, 1964, SNCC Papers, reel 39.
122 “civil strife and chaotic conditions”: New York Times, June 22, 1964.
122 “People here in Clarksdale”: Martinez, Letters from Mississippi, p. 70.
122 “Ah’m going swimmin’ ”: Ibid., pp. 71-72.
122 “Judas niggers”: Huie, Three Lives, p. 69.
123 “What have I done in my life?”: Winn, interview, November 13, 2007.
123 “troublemakers” and “uppity niggers”: Holland, From the Mississippi Delta, p. 203.
123 “I kinda figured”: Raines, My Soul Is Rested, p. 234.
124 “in case of emergency”: Sugarman, Stranger at the Gates, p. 75.
124 “When I raised my hand”: Sandra E. Adickes, Legacy of a Freedom School (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), p. 15.
125 “scrapping” cotton shreds: New York Times, August 24, 1964.
125 “a knot on my stomach”: Kay Mills, This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer (New York: Penguin Books, 1993), p. 21.
125 “Had it up as high”: Fannie Lou Hamer, “To Praise Our Bridges,” in Abbott, Mississippi Writers, p. 324.
125 “I knowed as much about a facto law”: Mills, This Little Light, p. 37.
125 “boss man” was “raisin’ Cain”: Charles Marsh, God’s Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997), p. 15.
125 “we’re not ready for that in Mississippi” and “I didn’t try to register for you”: Raines, My Soul Is Rested, p. 251.
125 “a Snicker”: Unita Blackwell, Barefootin’: Life Lessons from the Road to Freedom, with JoAnne Prichard Moore (New York: Crown, 2006), p. 83.
125 “She was SNCC itself”: James Forman, The Making of Black Revolutionaries (Washington, D.C.: Open Hand, 1985), p. 385.
125 “The only thing they could do”: Hamer, “To Praise Our Bridges,” p. 324.
126 “The white man’s afraid”: Silver, Mississippi, pp. 341-42.
126 “I feel like a man”: Sugarman, Stranger at the Gates, p. 116.
126 “and more and more and more”: Martinez, Letters from Mississippi, p. 72.
126 “These young white folks”: Ibid.
126 “Can I speak to Andy Goodman?”: Belfrage, Freedom Summer, p. 64.
127 “Just wanted to know”: WATS Line, July 5, 1964.
127 “Today would be a good day for prayer”: Delta Democrat-Times, June 24, 1964.
127 “It may well be a lesson”: Ibid.
127 “a lotta weight”: Tillinghast, interview, November 28, 2007.
127 “an epiphany”: Ibid.
128 “The food was good”: New York Times, July 6, 1964.
128 “We are just going to abide”: Ibid.
CHAPTER SIX: “The Scars of the System”
129 “Tonight the sickness struck”: Martinez, Letters from Mississippi, p. 137.
129 “What will it take”: Ibid., p. 138.
129 “lying on the ground”: Ibid., p. 137.
130 “Closed in Despair”: “Civil Rights: And the Walls Came Tumbling Down,” Time, July 17, 1974, p. 25.
130 “I’m free!”: Los Angeles Times, July 16, 1964.
130 “unless these people get out”: New York Times, July 5, 1964.
131 she had to say, “Nothing”: Fran O’Brien, personal interview, November 12, 2007.
131 “I hope you’re not too upset”: Fran O’Brien, correspondence, May 27, 1964.
131 “Are you sure”: Ibid.
131 “clearly understood”: O’Brien, correspondence, May 27, 1964.
132 “it occurred to me”: O’Brien, interview, November 12, 2007.
132 “It was just the way she’d grown up”: Ibid.