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279 “What did he mean by elimination?” Ibid.
279 “a Judas witness”: Los Angeles Times, October 19, 1967; Ball, Murder in Mississippi, p. 127.
279 “salt of the earth kind of people”: Ibid., pp. 128, 130.
279 “in church every time”: Ibid., p. 128.
279 “low-class riffraff”: Whitehead, Attack on Terror, p. 280.
279 “It may well be: Ibid.
279 “The federal government is not invading”: John Doar, Summary for the Prosecution, on Famous Trials Web site, http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/price&bowers/doarclose.htm.
280 “The strong arm”: H. C. Watkins, Summary for the Defense, on Famous Trials Web site, http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/price&bowers/watkinsclos.html.
280 “could never convict a preacher”: Ball, Murder in Mississippi, p. 133.
280 “They killed one nigger”: O’Reilly, “Racial Matters,” pp. 175-76.
280 “the best thing that’s ever happened”: Washington Post, October 21, 1967.
280 “landmark decision”: New York Times, October 21, 1967.
280 “They did better than I thought”: Ibid.
280 “I want you to write me”: Woods, LBJ, p. 480.
280 “to insure that they did not die in vain”: Congressional Record 111, pt. 10 (June 22, 1965): S 13931.
281 “the broadest possible scope”: Chandler Davidson and Bernard Grofman, eds., Quiet Revolution in the South: The Impact of the Voting Rights Act, 1965-1990 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994), p. 138.
281 “After Freedom Summer, we met black people”: John Howell, personal interview, March 11, 2008.
282 “I never dreamed I’d live to see”: Wirt, Politics of Southern Equality, p. 160.
282 “Hands that picked cotton”: Cambridge Encyclopedia, vol. 1, s.v. “Charles (James) Evers,” http://encyclopedia.stateuniversity.com/pages/185/-James-Charles-Evers.html.
282 “I count Mayor Evers as a friend”: Skates, Mississippi, pp. 168-69.
282 “Seg academies”: Wilkie, Dixie, p. 35.
282 “I can’t make people integrate”: Woods, LBJ, pp. 479-80.
283 “The Promised Land is still far off”: Hodding Carter III, e-mail interview, September 26, 2008.
283 “I believe that despite the terrible racist image”: Margaret Walker, “Mississippi and the Nation in the 1980s,” in Abbott, Mississippi Writers, p. 612.
283 “Not in Mississippi!”: Erenrich, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle, p. 409.
284 “There has not been meaningful change”: Adickes, Legacy of a Freedom School, p. 163.
284 “rosier and rosier”: O’Brien, interview, November 12, 2007.
284 “stepped into a hornet’s nest”: Ibid.
284 “It’s a good thing they got that Communist”: Ibid.
284 “It had been a rather quiet summer”: O’Brien, “Journey into Light,” p. 285.
285 “One might as well hold a skunk”: Ibid., p. 288.
285 “I never really had the time”: Fran O’Brien, e-mail correspondence, October 17, 2008.
285 “Yes, I know it sounds a bit wild”: Winn, correspondence, no date.
285 “I was so glad”: Winn, correspondence, September 15, 1964.
286 “They got Giles!”: Winn, interview, November 13, 2007.
286 “Janell and I are coming home”: Winn, correspondence, no date.
286 “We don’t need you”: Winn, interview, November 13, 2007.
286 “ fell in with another crowd”: Ibid.
286 “The fact that I”: Ibid.
286 “took some time to fuck off”: Ibid.
287 “Someone asked me”: Ibid.
287 “too containing”: Tillinghast, interview, December 16, 2008.
287 “I was born with a fighting nature”: Ibid.
287 “It was like going to war”: Ibid.
288 “Chrisnpenny”: Chris Williams, e-mail correspondence, October 17, 2008.
288 “I felt I’d given it a good shot”: Ibid.
289 “ragged and lost”: Penny Patch, in Curry et al., Deep in Our Hearts, p. 165.
289 “Mississippi without fear”: Williams, interview, September 21, 2008.
289 “Other people went to Vietnam”: Ibid.
290 “the ultimate Mississippi”: McAdam, Freedom Summer, p. 229.
290 “I am prouder of being there”: Adickes, Legacy of a Freedom School, p. 159.
290 “almost Jesus like aura”: Burner, And Gently He Shall Lead Them, p. 200.
291 “Like working with sharecroppers”: Bob Moses, personal