Howard Zinn, "Four Witness to a Mississippi Summer"

Source: Nation; 12/28/1964, Vol. 199 Issue 21, p507-507, 2/3p

Document Type: Article

Subject Terms: *CIVIL rights

*EMPLOYEES

*LAWYERS

*MASS media

Geographic Terms: MISSISSIPPI

UNITED States

Abstract: Neither a small army of newspaper correspondents, nor all the power of the electronic mass media, has been able to convey to the U.S. at large the reality of Mississippi. So it was not only desperation, but genius, that inspired the Mississippi civil rights workers a year ago to call for help from Northern ministers, lawyers, doctors, students, teachers, laborers. In some ways, people ought to be grateful for Mississippi. A nation needs to look at itself in the most revealing of mirrors, and Mississippi is just that for the U.S., not an oddity in a glass case, but a particularly ugly reflection of the rest of the country.

ISSN: 0027-8378

Accession Number: 13160553