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Politics in the Light of Day

By Jere Nash

Jackson Free Press | May 7, 2007

Using personal records, correspondence, meeting minutes and other long-forgotten documentation, Crespino chronicles how white reaction to the civil rights movement in Mississippi contributed to the rise and formation of Republican Party as we know it.

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