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Listening to the audiobook sped up while i’m working so it might seem denser than it is, but stylistically I don’t know that it’s my favorite.

Klan violence in Tuscaloosa's Black community ended when Klansmen discovered that attack would be met by an organized armed response. Police violence also slowed.

Some of SNCC's key leaders felt strongly that they would be selling out by devoting time and energy to voter registration when more immediate and everyday forms of discrimination persisted all across the South.

After the Civil War, Reconstruction did not fail; it was destroyed, crushed by more than a decade of savage campaigns of violence carried out both by local governments that largely remained intact and by vigilante terrorists.

Southwest Mississippi was the most Klan ridden region in state.

"Our niggers are happy and satisfied with their lives because we whites are good to them all this violence and trouble is instigated by outside agitators and Communists."

From the Klan's perspective black people swimming with white people was akin to sexual assault

Black veterans returning home were considered dangerous and disarming them was a priority for the white supremacists.

Many politicians feared the rise of communism would lead to "social equality" among the races.

The Kennedy administration constantly admonished nonviolent activists to "go slow", be patient and give southern racists a chance to change.

The federal government remained reluctant to rein in white supremacists and often allied with them.

Black veterans were thought to be largely responsible for Black agitation that white Americans saw in evidence all around them.

Violence continued to be the main tool of white supremacy during the first half of the 20th century.

If slavery was outlawed John Adams and others worried freed slaves would have the right to bear arms.

The "taming of the west" meaning the genocide of Native Americans has long been celebrated in U.S. media.

Night riders were cowardly people in any time and place and they take advantage of fear and weakness

1943 was just 80 years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclaimation.

Malcolm X denounced Martin Luther King Jr as a modern Uncle Tom subsidized by whites "to teach the Negroes to be defenseless".

The use of guns for self defense was not the opposite of nonviolence.