Title Spies of Mississippi [Boundless electronic resource] : the true story of the spy network that tried to destroy the civil rights movement / by Rick Bowers.

Publication Info.	Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, [2010]
	©2010

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Description	1 online resource (vii, 120 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Summary	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.
Audience	NC 1290 Lexile.
Study Program	Accelerated Reader AR MG 10.1 4 135869
Summary	Utilizes primary source materials to bring to light the secret efforts of spies who tried to block the voting rights of African-Americans during the Civil Rights era.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. 114-116) and index.
System Details	Requires Boundless App.
Subject	Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission -- History -- Juvenile literature.
	Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission -- History.
	Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission.
Chronological Term	Since 1900
Subject	African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- 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 -- Civil rights.
	African Americans -- Segregation.
	Civil rights movements.
	Politics and government.
	Race relations.
	States' rights (American politics)
	Mississippi -- Politics and government -- 1951- -- Juvenile literature.
	Mississippi -- Race relations -- Juvenile literature.
	Mississippi -- Politics and government -- 1951-
	Mississippi -- Race relations.
	Mississippi.
Genre	Electronic books.
	History.
	Juvenile works.
Other Form:	Print version: Bowers, Rick, 1952- Spies of Mississippi Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2010 9781426305955 (DLC) 2009018944 (OCoLC)320187237
ISBN	9781426307362 : $26.90
	1426307365 : $26.90

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