Spies of Mississippi

By Rick Bowers

Subjects: Juvenile literature, Segregation, Politics and government, African Americans, Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, Civil rights movements, States' rights (American politics), Civil rights, History, Race relations

Description: 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.