Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement
By Rick Bowers
Publisher
National Geographic
Imprint
National Geographic
ISBN
By Rick Bowers
9781426305962
Awards and Honors YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist, 2011; Children's Book Committee Bank Street College of Education Children's Choices - Best Books of 2011, Special Interests, History; <i>Booklist</i>2011 Top 10 Books for Youth, Black History;Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement
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9781426305962J
In the 1950s and 1960s, the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission compiled secret files on more than 87,000 private citizens in the most extensive state spying program in U.S. history. Its mission: to save segregation. Reproductions of selected documents. Bibliography. Quote sources. Index. Black-and-white photo insert.
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