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197 “The whole state is beginning to tighten up”: Ibid.
197 “operating a Freedom Outpost”: Ibid.
197 “in droves”: Ibid.
197 “trashy motherfucker”: Ibid., July 20, 1964.
197 “enough money to last him”: Branch, Pillar of Fire, p. 430.
198 “come with subpoenas”: Meridian Star, August 3, 1964.
198 “take care of him”: MDAH SCR ID# 2-112-1-49-1-1-1.
198 “pay a million more”: Ibid.
198 “buy a cattle ranch”: Ibid.
198 Dutch “seer”: Meridian Star, August 9, 1964.
198 “What happened to the three kids?”: Ball, Murder in Mississippi, p. 75.
198 “We’d have paid a lot more”: Kenneth O’Reilly, “Racial Matters”: The FBI’s Secret File on Black America, 1960-1972 (New York: Free Press, 1989), p. 174.
199 “We’ve spotted the dam”: Whitehead, Attack on Terror, p. 128.
199 “This is no pick and shovel job”: Ibid., p. 129.
199 “the summer of our discontent”: New York Times, July 29, 1964.
199 “Maybe the best course”: Huie, Three Lives, p. 214.
199 “see that their enemy”: COFO brochure, White Folks Project Collection, USM.
199 “there was no dialogue”: Ed Hamlett Papers, White Folks Project Collection, USM.
199 “Why Mississippi?”: Ibid.
200 “get the feel”: William and Kathleen Henderson Papers, SHSW.
200 “It looks like the pilot phase”: Martinez, Letters from Mississippi, p. 181.
200 “You Northerners all think”: Ibid., p. 186.
200 “How can these kids presume”: Sugarman, Stranger at the Gates, pp. 138-39.
200 “What’s so hard to explain”: Ibid., p. 145.
200 “Would you marry a Negro?”: Martinez, Letters from Mississippi, p. 179.
201 “Communist! . . . Queer!”: Ibid.
201 “guilty, agonized”: Adam Hochschild, Finding the Trapdoor: Essay, Portraits, Travels (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1997), p. 147.
201 “a splendid job”: Virginia Center for Digital History, “Wednesdays in Mississippi: Civil Rights as Women’s Work,” The Effects: Southern Women, p. 20, http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/WIMS/.
201 “Girls,” she said: Ibid.
201 “If you print my name”: Washington Post, August 16, 1964.
202 “I am not an integrationist”: MDAH SCR ID# 99-38-0-493-2-1-1.
202 “a breach of etiquette”: Carter, So the Heffners Left McComb, p. 125.
202 “to let the Civil Rights workers”: Ibid., p. 80.
202 “Whose car is that”: Ibid., p. 49.
202 “If you want to live”: Ibid., p. 79.
203 “chickened out”: Ira Landess, personal interview, November 28, 2007.
204 “You folks better get down”: Sellers and Terrell, River of No Return, p. 103.
204 “His head went through the windshield”: Ibid., p. 104.
205 “I’ d say start digging here”: Whitehead, Attack on Terror, p. 133.
205 “We’ll start here”: Cagin and Dray, We Are Not Afraid, p. 397.
205 “the faint odor”: Ibid., p. 398.
205 “Reporting one WB”: Whitehead, Attack on Terror, p. 134.
205 “We’ve uncapped one oil well”: Ibid.
206 “Mickey could count on Jim”: Huie, Three Lives, p. 95.
206 “the first interracial lynching”: Umoja Kwanguvu Papers, USM.
206 “O healing river”: David King Dunaway, How Can I Keep from Singing (New York: McGraw Hill, 1981), p. 235.
207 “Many reported contacts”: Branch, Pillar of Fire, p. 434.
207 “Mr. Hoover wanted me to call you”: Beschloss, Taking Charge, pp. 501-2.
208 “It is for us the living”: New York Times, August 6, 1964.
208 “Did you love your husband?”: Washington Post, August 6, 1964.
208 “My boy died a martyr”: McComb Enterprise-Journal, August 6, 1964.
208 “The closed society that is Mississippi”: Hartford Courant, August 6, 1964.
209 “The murders of Michael Henry Schwerner”: New York Times, August 6, 1964.
209 “None of those who have died”: Washington Post, August 6, 1964.
209 “We must track down the murderers”: Vicksburg Post, August 6, 1964.
209 “Many of us in Mississippi”: Delta Democrat-Times, August 9, 1964.
209 “a new hate campaign”: Meridian Star, August 6, 1964.
209 “It was those integration groups”: Delta Democrat-Times, August 6, 1964.
209 “If they had stayed home”: Hattiesburg American, August 5, 1964, cited in Tucker,