
Mississippi: The Closed Society
An essential Civil Rights-era account of a witness to the Oxford riots and Mississippi's nadir.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Univ. Press of Mississippi
- Year
- 2012
- ISBN-13
- 9781617033124
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- Civil Rights MovementRacial segregation in MississippiOxford riots
Awards
- Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardWon(1965)
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