We ain't what we was : civil rights in the new South / Frederick M. Wirt ; [with a foreword by Gary Orfield]

When officials of the U.S. Department of Justice came in 1961 to Panola County in the Mississippi Delta, they found a closed society in which race relations had not altered significantly since Reconstruction. Much has changed, however, in Mississippi in the past three decades, as Frederick Wirt demo...

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