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Spies of Mississippi : the true story of the spy network that tried to destroy the civil rights movement
Title:
Spies of Mississippi : the true story of the spy network that tried to destroy the civil rights movement
JLCTITLE245:
by Rick Bowers.
Personal Author:
Bowers, Rick, 1952- author.
Publication Information:
Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, [2010]
Physical Description:
vii, 120 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781426305955

9781426305962
General Note:
"Text design by Eva Absher"--Title page verso.
Abstract:
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.
Reading Level:
1290 Lexile.

NC 1290 L Lexile
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader Grades 5-8 10.1 4 Quiz 135869 English non-fiction.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 114-116) and index.
Corporate Subject:
Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission -- History -- Juvenile literature.

Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission -- History.

Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission. (OCoLC)fst00726640
Subject Term:
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.

African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.

African Americans -- Segregation -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.

States' rights (American politics) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.

Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.

African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.

African Americans -- Segregation -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.

States' rights (American politics) -- History -- 20th century.

Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.

African Americans -- Mississippi. -- History.

States' rights -- History.

Civil rights movements -- History.
Geographic Term:
Mississippi -- Politics and government -- 1951- -- Juvenile literature.

Mississippi -- Race relations -- Juvenile literature.

Mississippi -- Politics and government -- 1951-

Mississippi -- Race relations.

Mississippi -- Politics and government.
Genre:
Dust jackets (Bindings) -- 2010.

Authors' autographs (Provenance) -- Bowers -- 2010.

Young adult literature.
Added Author:
Absher, Eva.
Added Corporate Author:
National Geographic Society (U.S.)
Contents:
Foreword / Wade Henderson -- The Genesis -- Growing outrage, growing backlash -- "Bible" -- Pipeline -- Delta blues -- Death of a dream -- Savior of segregation -- Clandestine war -- Never, never land -- Overflowing the jails -- Battle for Ole Miss -- In the dead of the night -- Secret benefactor -- Agent X -- Marked men -- Magnolia curtain -- "Destroy this directive" -- What happened next -- Documents.
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