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Nothing and Everything Changes |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Edward Hower |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 9/1/2003 |
| Size: 2,318 Words, 14,352 Characters |
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SONS OF MISSISSIPPI
A Story of Race and Its Legacy
Paul Hendrickson
New York: Knopf, 2003
343 pp., $26.00
In late September 1962, a few days before riots accompanied James Meredith's enrollment as the first African-American student at the University of Mississippi, a photographer named Charles Moore snapped a photograph of seven white sheriffs, one of them wielding a small billy club, or "headache stick," as such weapons were known, the other men standing around grinning and guffawing. The picture would later appear in Life magazine and come to epitomize how the world would view southern lawmen: cocky, ignorant, and brutal.
Forty years later, a former Washington Post staff writer, Paul Hendrickson, has written the story of those seven sheriffs, their families, and their times, bo...
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...nderstand the human story of the integration struggle in the American South. The segregationists in Sons of Mississippi are not monsters but men and women, not so different from other white people of their time and place. Today, as the author eloquently shows, many Mississippians, black and white, are at least making determined efforts to see each other not in racial terms but as human beings.
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