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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,

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