For many Americans, the civil rights movement of the 1960s marked a watershed that was not only political and social in character but deeply personal as well.

In 1964, sociologist William McCord, long interested in movements for social change in the United States, began a study of Mississippi's Freedom Summer. Stanfor

"Natchez, Mississippi, once had more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in America, and its wealth was built on slavery and cotton. Today it has the gre

Mississippi: The Closed Society is a book about an insurrection in modern America, more particularly, about the social and historical background of that insurre