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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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Z 236 Z aCknOwLedgMenTs I had been a trial judge in Roxbury, Massachusetts, for five years when a little girl named Tiffany Moore died in gang crossfire. Motivated violence in my court’s jurisdiction was more often becoming random. It seemed to me that if I were to continue as a judge, a break was necessary. The break I selected was participation in a New York University seminar on Fridays, “Race and Nationality in Modern America.” I was the only nonacademic. That Humanities seminar, led by Professor David Reimers, led to my returnZ ing to Mississippi to visit my witnesses in United States v. Theron Lynd. My friend, the Forrest County Youth Court judge Mike McPhail, helped locate the witnesses. Grants followed from the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. John Kramer, dean of Tulane Law School, just two hours from Hattiesburg, invited me to be a visiting professor there in 1991. State senator Patricia McGovern created legislation for unpaid judicial leaves of absence which made that possible, and I also spent both 2000 semesters at Ole Miss Law School. Sara Crafts transcribed the interview tapes, which are available at the KenZ nedy Library and, as to the women interviewed, at Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library. Gilbert F. Ganucheau and Richard E. Windhorst, Jr., clerks of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, retrieved the Lynd files from storage, gave me duplicates, and provided pictures, some of which appear in this book. Student assistants who also worked with me in court and assisted in my work on Civil Rights Litigation: Cases and Perspectives have been recZ ognized in the prefaces to the first and second editions to that work. I had particular assistance on this book from Richard Link while I was at Tulane and Jon Seawright while at Ole Miss. I have also benefited from the editoZ rial assistance of Andrew Szanton while writing the book and the guidance of Walter Biggins at the University Press of Mississippi. Ed Robin, John R. Bradley, Jr., Burnis Morris, Gay PolkZPayton, Charles Eagles, Betsy Eggert, Z 237 Z acknowledgments Josie Brown, Barbara Flannery, Matt Bush and CBS News helped in various ways. I am grateful for the help of librarians at Tulane Law School, Ole Miss, the University of Southern Mississippi, and certainly New England Law Boston where I have been an adjunct professor for twentyZfour years. Sue Roche, Caroline Young, and Phuong Doan of the New England law staff have been particularly helpful. My wife of a half century, Stephanie Lang Martin, my personal librarian, has lived with me through both the events described in this book and their being made into this book. I owe her more than words can express. Gordon A. Martin, Jr. March 2010 ...