Spies of Mississippi
Subtitle: the true story of the spy network that tried to destroy the civil rights movement
By: Rick Bowers
Edition: Uncorrected advance reader's ed.
Publisher: National Geographic
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 121
ISBN-13: 9781426306570
Subjects: Politics and government; Race relations; States' rights (American politics); African Americans; Civil rights; Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission; Civil rights movements; Segregation; Juvenile literature; History
Description: In the 1950s and 1960s, the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission compiled secret files on more than 87,000 private citizens in the most extensive state spying program in U.S. history. Its mission: to save segregation.
Notes: A Junior Library Guild selection
Table of contents: title: Genesis; title: Growing outrage, growing backlash; title: "Bible"; title: Pipeline; title: Delta blues; title: Death of a dream; title: Savior of segregation; title: Clandestine war; title: Never, never land; title: Overflowing the jails; title: Battle for Ole Miss; title: In the dead of the night; title: Secret benefactor; title: Agent X; title: Marked men; title: Magnolia curtain; title: "Destroy this directive"; title: Epilogue: What happened next.