Ed King's Mississippi: Behind the Scenes of Freedom Summer

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Price
$40.00  $37.20
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Publish Date
Pages
150
Dimensions
7.39 X 10.34 X 0.71 inches | 1.68 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781628461152

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About the Author
Reverend Ed King was a major figure in the civil rights movement in Mississippi. A chaplain at Tougaloo College, he also became a key leader of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP). In the 1963 Freedom Vote mock campaign and election, King ran for lieutenant governor and Aaron Henry, president of the Mississippi NAACP, ran for governor. King was an MFDP delegate to the 1964 and 1968 Democratic National Conventions and helped found the Mississippi Civil Liberties Union. Trent Watts is associate professor of American studies at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. He is the author of One Homogeneous People: Narratives of White Southern Identity, 1890-1920 and White Masculinity in the Recent South.
Reviews
No account of the civil rights struggles in Mississippi would be complete without recognition of the significant role played by Rev. Ed King. This homegrown, Millsaps-educated, Methodist minister was arguably the most unyielding and outspoken white man in the state in support of the efforts to end racial segregation and discrimination. His heroic work brought him social ostracism by the white community and, indeed, almost cost him his life. This book provides an extraordinary collection of photographs taken by Rev. King in the summer of 1964. The volume affords us an amazing insight into the experiences and reflections of a very brave man.--William F. Winter, fifty-seventh governor of Mississippi