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COnTenTs preface ix prologue In the Office of Registrar Luther Cox “How Many Bubbles in a Bar of Soap?” 3 1. RaceZHaunted Mississippi 6 2. A Civil Rights Division in Justice 19 3. Civil Rights and the 1960 Campaign 30 4. Theron Lynd and the End of an Era 36 5. Preparing for Trial 39 6. The New Judge in the Southern District of Mississippi 53 7. The First Witness, Jesse Stegall 63 8. For the Defendants Dugas Shands and M. M. Roberts 77 9. The Burgers of Hattiesburg 86 10. The Other Young Turks David Roberson and Chuck Lewis 94 11. Eloise Hopson “I’d Like to See Them Make Me Change Anything I Want to Say” 109 12. Hercules and Its Inside Agitator, Huck Dunagin 116 13. Huck’s Men The Black Workers at Hercules 130 14. B. F. Bourn, Storekeeper and Freedom Fighter 154 15. The Reverends James C. Chandler and Wayne Kelly Pittman 157 Z viii Z Contents 16. The Reverend Wendell Phillips Taylor 167 17. The Leader, Vernon Dahmer 176 18. The White Witnesses and the Women Who Registered Them 179 19. “Negro or White Didn’t Have a Thing in the World to Do with It” Theron Lynd Takes the Stand 190 20.Ike’s Fifth Circuit Getting On with the Job at Hand 199 21. After the Trial 213 22. Mississippi Today 231 epilogue 234 acknowledgments 236 notes 238 bibliography 260 index 265 ...

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