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210 “reduced to a pulp”: Cagin and Dray, We Are Not Afraid, p. 407.

210 “In my extensive experience”: Ibid.

210 “substantive results”: New York Times, August 9, 1964.

210 “hate to be in his shoes”: MDAH SCR ID# 2-112-1-49-1-1-1.

210 “I want people to know”: New York Times, August 6, 1964.

211 “Y’all can be non-violent”: Blackwell, Barefootin’, p. 98.

211 “have some race pride”: Belfrage, Freedom Summer, p. 182.

211 “loudmouth everyone”: Ibid., pp. 182-83.

211 “to get the mandate from Bob”: Ibid., p. 183.

212 “I’m gonna kill ’em!”: Hank Klibanoff, “Moment of Reckoning,” Smithsonian , December 2008, p. 12.

212 “I want my brother!”: Cagin and Dray, We Are Not Afraid, p. 409.

212 “a mistake”: Wendt, Spirit and the Shotgun, p. 118.

212 “Sorry, but I’m not here to do”: Bradley G. Bond, Mississippi: A Documentary History (Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2003), pp. 254-59.

214 “The tragedy of Andy Goodman”: New York Times, August 10, 1964.

CHAPTER NINE: “Lay by Time”

215 “Success?” Moses told the press: Newsweek, August 24, 1964, p. 30.

215 “ from the unjust laws of Mississippi”: SNCC Papers, reel 39.

215 “It was the single time in my life”: Dittmer, Local People, p. 260.

216 “lay by time”: Blackwell, Barefootin’, p. 17.

216 “I am tired”: Martinez, Letters from Mississippi, p. 225.

216 “sailing and swimming”: Ibid., p. 221.

217 “I have been here nearly two months”: Ellen Lake Papers, USM.

217 “depression session”: Wilkie, Dixie, p. 144.

217 “If I stay here much longer”: Coles, Farewell to the South, pp. 252-53.

217 “She’s always in the same rut”: Margaret Hazelton Papers, USM.

218 “They keep killin’ our people”: Belfrage, Freedom Summer, p. 225.

218 “They might think twice”: Branch, Pillar of Fire, p. 450.

218 “by someone important”: WATS Line, August 10, 1964.

219 “a ballet”: Sidney Poitier, Life Beyond Measure: Letters to My Great-Granddaughter (New York: HarperCollins, 2008), p. 174.

219 “I have been a lonely man”: Adam Goudsouzian, Sidney Poitier: Man, Actor, Icon (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004), p. 224.

220 “Are you coming down here”: Dunaway, How Can I Keep, p. 234.

220 “Each morning I wake”: Julius Lester, All Is Well (New York: William Morrow, 1976), p. 112.

220 “If God had intended”: Martin Duberman, In White America (London: Faber and Faber, 1964), p. 4.

221 “That’s right!”: Elizabeth Martinez, “Theater of the Meaningful,” Nation, October 19, 1964, p. 255.

221 “a beacon of hope and love”: “Dream in a Bean Field,” Nation, December 28, 1964, p. 514.

222 “nasty little town”: Tillinghast, interview, December 16, 2008.

222 “Dear Doug”: SNCC Papers, reel 40.

222 “let me drive”: Tillinghast, interview, December 16, 2008.

223 “get the hell out of Issaquena County”: Ibid.

223 “You niggers get away”: United States Commission on Civil Rights, Hearings Before the United States Commission on Civil Rights, vol. 1, Voting: Hearings Held in Jackson, Miss. February 16-20, 1965 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1965), p. 132.

223 “courage overcame fear”: Tillinghast, interview, November 28, 2007.

224 “Look, close your mouth”: “Freedom Summer Journal of Sandra Adickes,” USM, http://anna.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/crda/adickes/ad001.htm.

224 “Mr. Clean”: Huie, Three Lives, p. 226.

224 “The white people of Mississippi”: Ibid.

225 “Communist Revolutionaries”: Mars, Witness in Philadelphia, p. 108.

225 “They’ve shot Silas!”: Belfrage, Freedom Summer, p. 222.

225 “colored doctor”: Zellner, The Wrong Side, p. 261.

226 “I got me one”: WATS Line, August 17, 1964.

226 “ticking time bomb”: Kotz, Judgment Days, p. 190.

226 “There’s no compromise”: Beschloss, Taking Charge, p. 515.

226 “If we mess with the group”: Ibid., p. 516.

226 “We’re going to lose the election”: Dittmer, Local People, p. 291.

226 “Help make Mississippi”: Herbert Randall and Bob Tusa, Faces of Freedom Summer (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press,