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Spies of Mississippi : the true story of the spy network that tried to destroy the civil rights movement
Title:
Spies of Mississippi : the true story of the spy network that tried to destroy the civil rights movement
Author:
Bowers, Rick, 1952-
Personal Author:
Bowers, Rick, 1952-
Publication Information:
Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, [2010]

©2010
Physical Description:
vii, 120 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary:
In the 1950s and 1960s, the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission compiled secret files on more than 87,000 private citizens in the most extensive state spying program in U.S. history. Its mission: to save segregation.
Language:
English
Reading Level:
NC 1290 Lexile.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 10.1 4.0 135869.

Reading Counts RC 6-8 11. 8 Quiz: 49032.
Corporate Subject:
Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission -- History -- Juvenile literature.

Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission -- History. -- Juvenile literature.
Subject Term:
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.

African Americans -- Segregation -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.

States' rights (American politics) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.

Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.

African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century. -- Juvenile literature.

African Americans -- Segregation -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century. -- Juvenile literature.

States' rights (American politics) -- History -- 20th century. -- Juvenile literature.

Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century. -- Juvenile literature.
Geographic Term:
Mississippi -- Politics and government -- 1951- -- Juvenile literature.

Mississippi -- Race relations -- Juvenile literature.

Mississippi -- Race relations. -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN:
9781426305955

9781426305962
Format :
Book

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