While surfing through Sovereignty Commission documents, I ran into this eight page speech. No title, no authorship is listed. But it is quite interesting. As you read through, you will see mention of the "communists" brought in for Freedom Summer, along with what Emmett Till "really said" to get him lynched.
It's an apology for Mississippi... and an attempt to get out the PR machine. Interesting propoganda. sk
The Mississippi Sovereignty Commission was a secret state police force operating from 1956 to 1977 to suppress the civil rights movement and maintain segregation. The commission kept files, harassed and branded many as communist infiltrators via agents who were retired FBI, CIA and military intelligence. No one was safe in Mississsippi. A form of the Sovereignty Commission continues today in Mississippi. Ask Haley Barbour.
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