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Sons of Mississippi by Paul Hendrickson (2004, Paperback, Reprint) 
Sons of Mississippi by Paul Hendrickson (2004, Paperback, Reprint)

 
Sons of Mississippi by Paul Hendrickson (2004, Paperback, Reprint)

Author: Paul Hendrickson
Publisher: Vintage Books
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0375704256
ISBN-13: 9780375704253
Product ID: EPID6040310
Description: Through portraits of seven Mississippi sheriffs--depicted in a memorable Life magazine photograph from 1962--and their offspring, a Washington Post writer traces the legacies of racism in the American South. Hendrickson reports on the ch...
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Synopsis
Through portraits of seven Mississippi sheriffs--depicted in a memorable Life magazine photograph from 1962--and their offspring, a Washington Post writer traces the legacies of racism in the American South. Hendrickson reports on the children and grandchildren of these seven men, and how they deal with the ideas and ways of life bequeathed to them.

Details
Publication Date:2004-01-01
Edition Description:Reprint

Size
Length:368 pages
Height:8.0 in
Width:5.0 in
Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:12.0 oz

Publisher's Note
They stand as unselfconscious as if the photograph were being taken at a church picnic and not during one of the pitched battles of the civil rights struggle. None of them knows that the image will appear in Life magazine or that it will become an icon of its era. The year is 1962, and these seven white Mississippi lawmen have gathered to stop James Meredith from integrating the University of Mississippi. One of them is swinging a billy club.

More than thirty years later, award-winning journalist and author Paul Hendrickson sets out to discover who these men were, what happened to them after the photograph was taken, and how racist attitudes shaped the way they lived their lives. But his ultimate focus is on their children and grandchildren, and how the prejudice bequeathed by the fathers was transformed, or remained untouched, in the sons. Sons of Mississippi is a scalding yet redemptive work of social history, a book of eloquence and subtlely that tracks the movement of racism across three generations and bears witness to its ravages among both black and white Americans.

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