Black politics in Mississippi to 1965 -- Plates of silver, plates of mud : 1965-1970 -- Gubernatorial fantasies and gradual gains -- Fused but not healed -- Reapportionment : giving Clark some company -- The Class of 1979 and the second generation of Black political power -- Lead into gold? : The alchemy of county redistricting -- City wards and Jacksonian democracy -- The Delta District and the continuing politics of race -- Epilogue: Javitses into Eastlands, Eastlands into Barbours
Summary
No one disagrees that 1964--Freedom Summer--forever changed the political landscape of Mississippi. How those changes played out is the subject of Chris Danielson's fascinating new book, After Freedom Summer
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-278) and index