SOCIAL SCIENCES

Down to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against Fear

by Aram Goudsouzian

Farrar. Feb. 2014. 368p. ISBN 9780374192204. $28. HIST

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After civil rights leader James Meredith was shot and injured while marching from Memphis to Jackson, his contemporaries flocked to Mississippi to take up his torch, resulting in a three-week demonstration that resisted brutal attacks from state police and brought together old guard and new.

Reviewed by Molly McArdle , Nov 01, 2013

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