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The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission: Civil Rights and States' Rights (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781604730081)
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xIn 1956, two years after the U.S. Supreme court unanimously outlawed legally imposed racial segregation in public schools, Mississippi created the State Sovereignty Commission.
This was the executive agency established "to protect the sovereignty of the State of Mississippi...from encroachment thereon by the Federal Government." The code word encroachment implied the state's strong resolve to preserve and protect the racial status quo. In the nomenclature the formality of the word sovereignty supposedly lent dignity to the actions of the Commission. For all practical purposes the Sovereignty Commission intended to wage this Deep South state's monolithic campaign against desegregation and against the ever intensifying crusade for civil rights in Mississippi.
In 1998 the papers of the Commission were made available for examination. No other state has such extensive and detailed documentary records from a similar agency. Exposed to public light, they unmasked the Comm
Author: Yasuhiro Katagiri
ISBN-10: 1604730080
ISBN-13: 9781604730081
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Language: English
Published: 11/30/2007
Pages: 348
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.86d
By Yasuhiro Katagiri
xYasuhiro Katagiri is associate professor of American history and government at Tokai University in Kanagawa, Japan. He has been published in such periodicals as American Review and 49th Parallel: An Interdisciplinary Journal of North American Studies.
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