Title: Dixie's dirty secret
First published: 1997
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.
Subjects: African Americans, Civil rights, Civil rights movements, History, Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, Political persecution, Protest movements, Race relations, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975, Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Mississippi, social conditions, Civil rights movements, united states, African americans, civil rights, Vietnam war, 1961-1975, protest movements, Civil rights, united states, Mississippi. State Sovereignty Commission
Places: Mississippi
Time periods: 20th century