...This chapter focuses on another government witness, Benjamin Franklin “B. F.” Bourn, who ran the grocery and meat market in the heart of black Hattiesburg. In 1946 he helped establish Forrest County’s NAACP chapter. Bourn Arlena Oatis Bourn B F Bourn Booker Cox William Harold Doar John Kelly...

...This chapter acknowledges the horrific violence against some Black people in Hattiesburg where Clyde Kennard grew up. It highlights the tragedy of dying at the hands of southern lynch mobs. The backlash to Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka and Black voter activism led...

... a godsend. The chapter notes that Citizens' Council's head Dudley Conner needed Kennard to leave Hattiesburg and never return, referencing his preference to use economic pressure. Eisenhower Dwight D Gartin Carroll Howard T R M White Hugh Coleman James P Gore Nay Hicks Leonard C Mississippi State...