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292 “To me, it was sort of like a plane crash”: Cagin and Dray, We Are Not Afraid, p. 454.
292 “I was quite delighted”: Ibid., p. xv.
293 “Had I done it”: Chicago Tribune, November 13, 1978.
293 “I’m not going to say they were wrong”: New York Times, January 7, 2005.
293 “It was what I’d been wanting”: New York Times, June 12, 2005.
293 “The media has profited”: Ibid.
293 “Communists invaded”: Jackson Clarion-Ledger, June 18, 2005.
293 “as strong for segregation”: Jackson Clarion-Ledger, June 12, 2005.
294 “If you want my forgiveness”: New York Times, August 21, 2007.
294 “Mighty long time”: New York Times, January 7, 1905.
295 “it really hit me”: Williams, dir., Ten Days.
295 “She just wrapped her arms”: Ibid.
295 “if he had anything to do with those boys”: New York Times, June 18, 2005.
295 “J. E. never come back”: Jackson Clarion-Ledger, June 19, 2005.
295 “I thought it was unusual”: Jackson Clarion-Ledger, June 20, 2005.
295 “nothing but stirring”: Ibid.
295 “Do your duty”: Ibid.
295 “She believes the life of her son”: New York Times, June 22, 2005.
296 “day of great importance”: Jackson Clarion-Ledger, June 22, 2005.
296 “in a calculated”: Arkansas Delta Truth and Justice Center, “Neshoba Murders Case—A Chronology,” Civil Rights Movement Veterans Web site, http://www.crmvet.org.
296 “Other cold cases”: Jerry Mitchell, personal interview, October 9, 2008.
296 “That was the time of the hippies”: Hampton, “Mississippi—Is This America? ”
296 “changed Mississippi forever”: Charlie Cobb, Oral History Collection, USM.
297 “the greatest sociological experiment”: Burner, And Gently He Shall Lead Them, p. 166.
297 “Christ-like”: Marsh, God’s Long Summer, p. 45.
297 “They were the best friends we ever met”: Ibid.
297 “Freedom Summer injected a new spirit”: John Lewis, personal interview, September 12, 2008.
297 “Why can’t it be”: Jackson Clarion-Ledger, November 6, 2008, p. 1.
298 “This is history, woman”: “Students Asked Not to Say Obama’s Name,” WAPT, Channel 16, Jackson, Miss., http://www.wapt.com/video/17928161/index.html.
298 “I voted for Obama”: Wayne Drash, “Crossing the Railroad Tracks amid a New Time in History,” CNN, January 16, 2009, http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/12/crossing.railroad.tracks/.
298 “Oh, if he’d just been able”: Jackson Clarion-Ledger, January 21, 2009.
298 “It’s the most wonderful day”: Delta Democrat-Times, January 21, 2009.
298 “where the stage was set”: “Pulitzer Prize-Winning Writer Alice Walker and Civil Rights Leader Bob Moses Reflect on an Obama Presidency and the Struggle for African Americans to Vote,” Democracy Now! January 20, 2009, http://www.democracynow.org/2009/1/20/pulitzer_prize_winning_writer_alice_walker.
298 “My fellow citizens”: New York Times, January 21, 2009.
299 “They saw America as bigger”: Ibid.
299 “the closest thing to a perfect day”: Fran O’Brien, e-mail correspondence, January 21, 2009.
299 “What the cynics fail to understand”: New York Times, January 21, 2009.
299 “and why a man whose father”: Ibid.
299 “It took forty-five years”: Linda Wetmore Halpern, e-mail correspondence, January 21, 2009.
300 “At the end of it all”: Williams, e-mail correspondence, January 21, 2009.
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