Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow | 
so-soThis is a dark book, weighted by story after story of atrocity and more atrocity, both systemic and specific, about the struggle to suppress, control, and extinguish any hope in the African-Americans who were born in Mississippi in the late 19th and early 20th century. It is exhausting to read--so many numbers. So many killings, lynchings, missing persons. I finished it, but the cost was knowing how my home state had transgressed again and again.
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