James W. Silver
James W. Silver (1907-1988) was professor of history at the University of Mississippi. He is author of Mississippi: The Closed Society, Running Scared: Silver in Mississippi, and Edmund Pendleton Gaines, Frontier General and editor (with John K. Bettersworth) of Mississippi in the Confederacy.
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Mississippi
The Closed Society
University Press of Mississippi
An essential Civil Rights-era account of a witness to the Oxford riots and Mississippi’s nadir
Running Scared
Silver in Mississippi
University Press of Mississippi
The history of a university professor’s daring stand for principles during the movement for civil rights in Mississippi and the history behind the writing of his incisive analysis entitled Mississippi: The Closed Society in 1964
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