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The Spies of Mississippi is just a powerful tale of how condition spies attempted to prevent voting rights for African-Americans throughout the Civil Rights period. This book sheds new light on a single of the very important times in National history.Author John Bowers has combed through primary-source components and interviewed enduring activists called in once-secret documents, in addition to the documents and oral records of Mississippi civil-rights leaders. Readers get first-hand reports of how neighbors spied on neighbors, academics spied on pupils, ministers spied on church-goers, and spies actually spied on spies.The Spies of Mississippi may encourage readers with all the tales of the courageous people who transformed the forces of white supremacy to usher in a brand new era of trust and freedom—an age that's recently culminated in the selection of Barack Obama.