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Back to Mississippi: A Personal Journey Through the Events That Changed America in 1964

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Mary Winstead grew up in Minneapolis, captivated by her fathers tales of his boyhood in rural Mississippi. As a kid, she visited her relatives down South, and her nostalgia for that world and its folks would compel her to gather her fathers stories for her own children. But Winsteads research into her circle of relatives history led her to a series of horrifying revelations: about her relatives ingrained racism, their involvement with the Klan, and their connection to the infamous 1964 murders of 3 civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and James Chaney.Writing with dignity, humility, and a profound sense of time and place, Winstead chronicles her awakening to painful truths about folks she loved and thought she knew. She profiles her father, a person of exceptional charm and secretiveness. She traces her familys roots through post-Civil War poverty, Southern pride, and Jim Crow laws, exploring racism on each side of the Mason-Dixon line. So much movingly, she main points her own inner war, a battle between her love for her circle of relatives and their untenable beliefs and practices.

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