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255 “a tremendous victory”: Kotz, Judgment Days, p. 215.
255 “Your funding is on the line”: Ibid.
256 “The President has said”: Ibid., p. 216.
256 “wrung out the blood”: Jack Newfield, A Prophetic Minority (New York: New American Library, 1966), p. 76.
256 “if they really understand”: Mulford and Field, Freedom on My Mind.
256 “You cheated!”: Kotz, Judgment Days, p. 216.
256 “Atlantic City was a powerful lesson”: Forman, Making of Black Revolutionaries , pp. 395-96.
256 “The kids tried the established methods”: Olson, Freedom’s Daughters, p. 325.
257 “Stokely,” Hartman Turnbow asked: Carmichael, Ready for Revolution, p. 408.
257 “they can use the info”: WATS Line, August 25, 1964.
257 “cowhided and horsewhipped”: New York Times, August 27, 1964.
257 “cheap, degrading insults”: Jackson Clarion-Ledger, August 27, 1964.
257 “that debt is paid in full”: Chicago Tribune, August 26, 1964.
258 “like Mata Hari and the French Resistance”: Martinez, Letters from Mississippi , p. 256.
258 “All we want”: Mulford and Field, Freedom on My Mind.
258 “We’ve shed too much blood”: Lewis, Walking with the Wind, p. 281.
258 “We didn’t come all this way”: Blackwell, Barefootin’, p. 115.
258 “You have made your point”: Kotz, Judgment Days, p. 221.
258 “Being a Negro leader”: Ibid.
258 “Socrates or Aristotle”: Burner, And Gently He Shall Lead Them, p. 187.
258 “We’re not here to bring politics into our morality”: Ibid.
259 “When they got through talking”: Dittmer, Local People, p. 301.
259 “a significant moral and political victory”: Los Angeles Times, August 27, 1964.
259 “a triumph of Moral force”: New York Times, August 27, 1964.
259 “nothing short of heroic”: Washington Post, August 26, 1964.
259 “You don’t know how they goin’ to do us!”: Belfrage, Freedom Summer, p. 197.
260 “I just want you to know”: Zoya Zeman, Oral History Collection, USM.
260 “Fine,” the registrar answered: MDAH SCR ID# 2-61-1-101-5-1-1.
261 “snowballed” and “completely out of control”: Ibid.
CHAPTER ELEVEN: “Give unto Them Beauty for Ashes”
262 “My God,” he said: Anthony Walton, Mississippi: An American Journey (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996), p. 254.
263 “The longest nightmare”: Sellers and Terrell, River of No Return, p. 94.
263 “At the end of summer”: Watkins, interview, June 16, 2008.
263 “If the present increase in violence”: SNCC Papers, reel 38.
263 “are very fine people”: Mendy Samstein Papers, SHSW.
264 “I didn’t realize yet”: O’Brien, interview, November 12, 2007.
264 “Well, what was happening”: McAdam, Freedom Summer, p. 134.
264 “everything was awful”: Linda Wetmore, personal interview, March 27, 2008.
264 “You’re telling me”: Ibid.
264 “I could never kiss anybody” and “Then I guess”: Ibid.
265 “battle fatigue”: Lewis, Walking with the Wind, p. 273.
265 “Our very normal”: McAdam, Freedom Summer, p. 136.
265 “the best people I ever met”: Martinez, Letters from Mississippi, p. 259.
265 “I went from being a liberal”: McAdam, Freedom Summer, p. 127.
265 “not a very creative guy”: Ibid., p. 165.
266 “Can I now forget Mississippi?”: “The Reminiscences of Mario Savio,” Oral History Research Office Collection, Columbia University, p. 40.
266 “I’m definitely not ready”: Mills, This Little Light, p. 135.
267 “the proudest moment of my life”: Abbott, Mississippi Writers, p. 329.
267 “welling out like poison”: Ibid.
267 “The Negro girls feel neglected”: Olson, Freedom’s Daughters, p. 309.
267 “just seemed to hate me”: McAdam, Freedom Summer, p. 124.
267 “do what the spirit say do”: Lewis, Walking with the Wind, p. 294.
267 “We must decide”: Clayborne Carson, In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1981), p. 146.
267 “too many people high on freedom”: Casey Hayden, in Curry et al., Deep in Our Hearts, p. 364.
268 “the average white person doesn’t realize”: Casey Hayden and Mary King, “Women in the Movement,” Student Nonviolent Coordinating