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Book Summary – Susan Orr-Klopfer, Where Rebels Roost: Mississippi Civil Rights Revisited

Where Rebels Roost

Mississippi Civil Rights Revisited

Publisher: M. Susan Orr Klopfer, MBA

Publication Date: July 1, 2005

No. Pages: 668

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Special Inclusions

Nine-page Selected Bibliography/Citations: 73 Books; 3 Dissertations; 47 Articles; 32 Collections, Interviews, Oral Histories.

Twenty-pages/ Lists of Dead/References 900+ names and information of African Americans lynched and murdered in Mississippi from 1870 to 1970 (references Southern Law & Poverty Center, NAACP, Tuskegee Institute, individual family and friends, personal research).

Sixteen-page/160+ Names of Emmett Till Principles/Names and biographies of people close to this case, from lawyers, witnesses, judges and jurors to police, politicians, friends and families.

Over one hundred specific Sovereignty Commission Documents, references given.

Authors:

M. Susan Orr Klopfer, MBA

With Fred J. Klopfer, PhD and

Barry C. Klopfer, Esq.

Foreword by Benjamin T. Greenberg

Editors:

Margaret Block

Jan Hilligas

Geoffrey F.X. O’Connell

Karrie Schoppe

Dedicated to the memory of Birdia Keglar, James “Sonny Boy” Keglar, Adeline Hamlet, Grafton Gray, Cleve McDowell and Sam Block.

Where Rebels Roost: Mississippi Civil Rights Revisited is nonfiction. Descriptions and dialogue are based on interviews conducted with eyewitnesses and participants in the events described. In addition, newspapers, books, journal and magazine accounts were used. Other resources were documents, letters, diaries, and oral histories from various libraries, archives and private collections. Two other primary sources used were government materials provided under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act and material from the archives of the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, available online. The project was initiated in August of 2003 and completed June 30, 2005.

CONTENTS

Foreword by Benjamin T. Greenberg vii

Prologue xv

Book One History to Learn From

Chapter 1 From the Delta 3

Chapter 2 On Becoming Mississippi 0

Chapter 3 Hands that Picked the Cotton 27

Chapter 4 War of Aggression 36

Chapter 5 Freedom’s Taste 57

Chapter 6 Power of Terrorism 91

Chapter 7 Integration ‘Impossible’ 107

Chapter 8 Under the Microscope 129

Book Two Still Time To Learn

Chapter 9 Mississippi Stories 150

Chapter 10 Veterans Challenge the System 158

Chapter 11 War Rumors Hang Around 167

Chapter 12 Post War Civil Rights 178

Chapter 13 Brown & White Citizens Councils 188

Chapter 14 Bloody Belzoni 211

Chapter 15 Emmett Till 220

Chapter 16 The Meltons of Glendora 251

Chapter 17 Surviving Mississippi 266

Chapter 18 Registering Voters 277

Chapter 19 Mission Implausible 308

Chapter 20 Pushing the System 321

Chapter 21 Cleve McDowell 353

Chapter 22 Medgar Evers 366

Chapter 23 De’ Lay 371

Chapter 24 Follow the Money 391

Chapter 25 Chaney, Goodman & Schwerner 405

Chapter 26 Let the Summer Begin 430

Chapter 27 Klandestine 438

Chapter 28 Freedom Democrats 452

Chapter 29 Not Afraid 465

Chapter 30 Birdia Keglar 479

Chapter 31 Self Preservation 492

Chapter 32 Advocacy Building 510

Chapter 33 More Violence to Reconcile 529

Chapter 34 A Place in Time 559

Epilogue 577

Appendix

Lists of the Dead 579

The People of Emmett Till 600

WeBlog: Mack Charles Parker: 617

Selected Bibliography 618

About the Authors 627

Index 628

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  • Jonathan David Jackson July 2, 2005, 7:09 pm

    I am looking forward to obtaining this book. Congratulations on its publication.

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