Jason Morgan Ward Books
Hanging Bridge: Racial Violence and America's Civil Rights Century
"Even at the height of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, when the clarion call for equality and justice echoed around the country, few volunteers ventured into Clarke County, Mississippi. Few...
Read MoreMississippi black paper
By Reinhold Niebuhr, Hodding Carter, Jason Morgan Ward
"At the height of the civil rights movement in Mississippi, as hundreds of volunteers prepared to descend on the state for the 1964 Summer Project, the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) com...
Read MoreMississippi black paper
By Reinhold Niebuhr, Hodding Carter, Jason Morgan Ward
"At the height of the civil rights movement in Mississippi, as hundreds of volunteers prepared to descend on the state for the 1964 Summer Project, the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) com...
Read MoreDefending white democracy
"After the Supreme Court ruled school segregation unconstitutional in 1954, southern white backlash seemed to explode overnight. Journalists profiled the rise of a segregationist movement committed...
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