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A Slow, Calculated Lynching: The Story of Clyde Kennard (Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series)
In the years following Brown v. Board of Education, countless Black citizens endured violent resistance and even death while fighting for their constitutional rights. One of those citizens, Clyde Kennard (19271963), a Korean War veteran and civil rights leader from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, attempted repeatedly to enroll at the all-white Mississippi Southern Collegenow the University of Southern Mississippiin the late 1950s. In Read more