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Civil Rights in Mississippi Series

The Civil Rights in Mississippi Series features books written from the epicenter of the civil rights movement, documenting the struggles many African Americans and civil rights workers faced as they fought for an end to racial discrimination. The series concentrates on Mississippi during the 1960s, looking closely at the civil rights struggle of those years as well as important figures and events of the movement.

Series Editor: Trent Brown, professor of American studies at Missouri University of Science and Technology.

For more information or to submit a proposal, contact acquisitions editor Emily Snyder Bandy.

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The Struggle of Struggles

The Struggle of Struggles

By Vera Pigee
Edited by Françoise N. Hamlin
Notes by Françoise N. Hamlin
Introduction by Françoise N. Hamlin
Categories: African American Studies
Series: Civil Rights in Mississippi Series

Named one of five best books on women in the Civil Rights Movement by Wall Street Journal

From 1955 to 1975, Vera Pigee (1924–2007) put her life and livelihood on the line with grassroots efforts for ...

The South Strikes Back

The South Strikes Back

By Hodding Carter III
Introduction by Stephanie R. Rolph
Categories: Civil Rights
Series: Civil Rights in Mississippi Series

In The South Strikes Back, Hodding Carter III describes the birth of the white Citizens’ Council in the Mississippi Delta and its spread throughout the South. Originally published in 1959, this book ...

The Smell of Burning Crosses

The Smell of Burning Crosses

By Ira Harkey
Introduction by William Hustwit
Categories: Mississippi
Series: Civil Rights in Mississippi Series

Journalist Ira Harkey (1918–2006) risked it all when he advocated for James Meredith’s admission to the University of Mississippi as the first African American student in 1962.

Preceded by a legal ...

Three Years in Mississippi

Three Years in Mississippi

By James Meredith
Introduction by Aram Goudsouzian
Categories: History
Series: Civil Rights in Mississippi Series

On October 1, 1962, James Meredith was the first African American student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. Preceded by violent rioting resulting in two deaths and a lengthy court battle that ...

Mississippi Black Paper

Mississippi Black Paper

Foreword by Reinhold Niebuhr
Introduction by Hodding Carter III & Jason Morgan Ward
Categories: History
Series: Civil Rights in Mississippi Series

At the height of the civil rights movement in Mississippi, as hundreds of volunteers prepared for the 1964 Freedom Summer Project, the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) compiled hundreds of statements ...

Three Lives for Mississippi

Three Lives for Mississippi

By William Bradford Huie
Introduction by Martin Luther King & Jr.
Afterword by Juan Williams
Categories: History
Series: Civil Rights in Mississippi Series

In the civil rights movement, 1964 was the year of Freedom Summer. On June 21, Mississippi, one of the last bastions of segregation in America and a bloody battleground in the fight for civil rights, ...

Mississippi

Mississippi

By William McCord
Introduction by Françoise N. Hamlin
Categories: History
Series: Civil Rights in Mississippi Series

In 1964, sociologist William McCord, long interested in movements for social change in the United States, began a study of Mississippi's Freedom Summer. Stanford University, where McCord taught, had been ...

So the Heffners Left McComb

So the Heffners Left McComb

By Hodding Carter II
Introduction by Trent Brown
Preface by Oliver Emmerich
Categories: Mississippi
Series: Civil Rights in Mississippi Series

On Saturday, September 5, 1964, the family of Albert W. "Red" Heffner Jr., a successful insurance agent, left their house at 202 Shannon Drive in McComb, Mississippi, where they had lived for ten years. ...