Dixie's dirty secret
Subtitle: the true story of how the government, the media, and the mob conspired to combat integration and the Vietnam antiwar movement
By: James Dickerson.
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Armonk, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission.; Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.; African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.; Political persecution -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- Mississippi.; Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.; Mississippi -- Race relations.
Description: After the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling in 1954 mandated the desegregation of schools nationwide, the legislature in the state of Mississippi created the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, the basic mission of which was to prevent integration in that state.

This book is an investigative history of the Commission, other government agencies (including the FBI), and organized crime, all of which conspired to break the law in dealing with civil-rights and antiwar activists during the 1950s and 1960s. The author uncovers new information about the efforts of FBI agents to combat integration and exposes the longest-running conspiracy in American history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-243) and index.