1. “This is Mississippi, the middle of the iceberg. This is a tremor in the middle of the iceberg from a stone that the builders rejected.” -- Bob Moses, 1961 Mississippi: Is This America?

2. 2 1720-1835 1835-1865

3. 1865-1876

4. Hiram Revels and Blanche Bruce, U.S. Senators from Mississippi, both African American

6. Two Members of the Ku Klux Klan in Disguise, 1868

8. Thomas Nast’s 1874 cartoon entitled “Worse Than Slavery”

10. The “patchwork quilt” of Reconstruction and Redemption

11. 1890 Mississippi 1895 South Carolina 1901 Alabama

12. 12 The Rise of Segregation: The Strange Career of “Jim Crow”

13. Three Pillars of White Supremacy Segregation Voter disfranchisement Extralegal violence and use of criminal justice system [concept of “legal lynching”]

14. 14 Voter Disfranchisement

15. 15 The Scourge of Lynching

16. 16... and “Race Riots”

17. 1940-1954

19. Charles White. The Return of the Soldier, 1946. Pen and ink on illustration board. Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction Number: LC- USZC4-4886 (8- 19) Prints and Photographs Division

23. 1954

24. 1955

26. “I want the whole world to see what they did to my baby....”

28. Media What role do the media play in shaping perceptions of a social movement and its antagonists?

30. 1960

31. Julian Bond and SNCC activists

32. 1961

35. CORE Freedom Riders after attacks on their Greyhound bus outside of Anniston, Alabama

36. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy

37. Alabama Governor John Patterson

40. Freedom Riders arriving in Jackson, Mississippi, where they were promptly arrested

43. “And people ask why we are down here....” Fundraising advertisement published by SNCC in its newsletter, The Student Voice, in 1964

44. 1962

47. October 1, 1962: James Meredith (center) is escorted by Federal officials including U.S. Department of Justice Attorney John Doar (pictured on right) at the University of Mississippi.

48. Defenders of segregation at Ole Miss

49. U.S. Marshals arrive in Oxford in Army trucks

50. September 30, 1962: Students riot in response to James Meredith’s enrollment at Ole Miss.

51. October 1, 1962: Soldiers remove arrested rioters from the Ole Miss campus

52. August 18, 1963 - Meredith graduates from the University of Mississippi

53. 1963

54. Medgar Evers, assassinated on June 11, 1963

59. Martha Prescod, Mike Miller, and Bob Moses register voters in the Mississippi countryside, Fall 1963

62. 1964

63. Mississippi Governor Paul B. Johnson, Jr.

69. See notes

71. COFO Freedom School in the Mississippi Delta, Freedom Summer, 1964

72. Edie Black teaches a freedom school class in Mileston, Mississippi, Freedom Summer, 1964.

75. Fannie Lou Hamer campaigning for the MFDP

77. James Forman of SNCC

78. Roy Wilkins of the NAACP