August 25, 2014
Mitchell says he sees progress in his own classes in Meridian, where he notes white students are descendants of a community that produced the Klansmen who killed James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner in the summer of 1964 in Neshoba County. Today, he says white students are appalled at those acts.
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Analysis: Book Takes Fresh Look at Miss. History
The book is called "A New History of Mississippi," and a new approach is what Dennis Mitchell wanted when he wrote it.
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