In anticipation of the Edgar Ray Killen trial, Susan has started a Mississippi Sovereignty Commission blog, on which she is posting links to documents of interest from the Commission's papers that are available online in digital form, through the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH). There is an amazing amount of material in the Commission files, so it is a great opportunity to get pointed towards significant documents by a a writer who has been working extensively with the contents of the archives. In brief, the Sovereignty Commission was a Mississippi state spy agency, founded to monitor and oppose the Civil Rights Movement. There is one good summary of the Commission's history here. Next up will be an excerpt from the Sovereignty Commission history that is posted on the MDAH website.
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Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records
SCR ID # 2-141-0-19-1-1-1
Mississippi Department of Archives & History
http://www.mdah.state.ms.us
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The Sovereignty Commission sounds allot like the department of home land security.
Yes, CC, it sure does. Knowing about the Sovereignty Commisssion should make everyone very, very concerned about the Dept. Of Homeland Security and the Patriot Act and other post 9/11 federal surveillance powers (if we weren’t already…).