About the Author

 Neil R. McMillen, professor of history at the University of Southern Mississippi, is the author of The Citizens' Council: Organized Resistance to the Second Reconstruction, 1954-64 and co-author of A Synopsis of American History.

 

Reviews

Winner of the Bancroft Prize in American History and the McLemore Prize of the Mississippi Historical Society. Also named an Outstanding Book by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in the United States.

Winner of the Bancroft Prize in American History and the McLemore Prize of the Mississippi Historical Society. Also named an Outstanding Book by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in the United States.