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170 “Hello, Freedom!”: Ibid.
170 “When you’re not in Mississippi”: Martinez, Letters from Mississippi, p. 18.
170 McComb: Mount Zion Hill Baptist Church: COFO Incidents.
171 “The mosquitoes down here”: Jinny Glass Diary, USM.
171 “You will all be glad to hear”: Len Edwards, correspondence, August 5, 1964.
171 “Ho hum. This violent life rolls on”: Hodes Papers, SHSW.
171 “nothing serious”: WATS line, July 20, 1964.
171 “engaged in widespread terroristic acts”: COFO v. Rainey, et al., Meikeljohn Civil Liberties Institute Archives, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/meiklejohn/meik-10_1/meik-10_1-6.html#580.7.
172 “the happiest project”: Dittmer, Local People, p. 257.
172 “a real movie star”: Carmichael, Ready for Revolution, p. 399.
172 “plain cute”: Hudson and Curry, Mississippi Harmony, p. 82.
173 “If you want to start a meeting”: James Kates Papers, SHSW.
173 “out under the trees”: Sugarman, Stranger at the Gates, p. 114.
173 “laughing his ass off” and “Someone shot at you”: Williams, interview, November 24, 2007.
173 “I don’t believe in this sort of thing”: Fred R. Winn, correspondence, July 29, 1964.
173 “Canton—Number of those”: SNCC Papers, Reel 38.
174 “high degree of probability”: SNCC Papers, reel 40.
174 “everyone who is not working”: Ibid.
174 “canvassing, which you all know about”: Ibid.
175 “The Democratic National Convention is a very big meeting”: Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party brochure, Chris Williams private papers.
176 “I got to think about it”: Belfrage, Freedom Summer, p. 187.
176 “battle royal”: Washington Post, July 23, 1964.
176 “potentially explosive dilemma”: Los Angeles Times, July 26, 1964.
176 “Papa Doc”: Dittmer, Local People, p. 262.
177 “He has trouble relating to white women”: Chude Pamela Allen, “Watching the Iris,” in Erenrich, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle, p. 418.
177 “will have to pack his bag”: Sellers and Terrell, River of No Return, p. 96.
177 “We can’t let them think”: Ibid., p. 98.
177 “the one thing where the Negro”: Barbara Ransby, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003), p. 314.
178 “Young man”: Martinez, Letters from Mississippi, p. 207.
178 “I felt personally responsible”: Watkins, interview, June 16, 2008.
179 “They both left together”: Charlie Cobb, personal interview, July 16, 2008.
179 “Muriel was tough”: Ibid.
179 “We had never seen anybody”: Blackwell, Barefootin’, p. 70.
179 “Oh Lord, Lord”: Ibid., p. 78.
179 “For someone so young”: Ibid., p. 79.
180 “Muriel taught things”: Ibid., p. 80.
180 “What Muriel Tillinghast really taught”: Ibid.
180 “Okay, I’ll do that”: Ibid., p. 81.
180 “Things getting pretty tight”: WATS Line, July 13, 1964.
180 “They recognized we were”: Tillinghast, interview, December 16, 2008.
180 “Go back to Greenville”: COFO, Mississippi Black Paper, pp. 88-89.
180 “If he gets killed”: Beschloss, Taking Charge, p. 460.
181 “There are threats”: Ibid., p. 461.
181 “Talk to your man in Jackson”: Ibid.
181 “We tried to warn SNCC”: Payne, I’ve Got the Light, p. 103.
181 “Martin Luther Coon”: Hampton, “Mississippi—Is This America?”
181 “Martin Luther King at Communist”: Blackwell, Barefootin’, p. 68.
181 “the unspeakable Martin Luther King”: Davies, Press and Race, p. 41.
181 “I want to live a normal life”: Kotz, Judgment Days, p. 176.
181 “just suicidal”: Ibid., p. 177.
181 “the most creative thing”: King, Freedom Song, pp. 307-8.
182 “to demonstrate the absolute support”: Branch, Pillar of Fire, p. 410.
182 “You must not allow anybody”: New York Times, July 22, 1964.
182 “Gentlemen, I will be brief ”: Ibid.
183 “mobilize the power”: Washington Post, July 23, 1964.
183 “murdered by the silence”: Ibid.
183 “that these same efficient FBI men”: Delta Democrat-Times, July 22, 1964.
183 “Seat the Freedom