After the Civil War, a majority of Marshall County’s voters were black, so one African-American state senator and three state representatives were elected. However, due to voting fraud and intimidation, those seats were lost at the next election.
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Lynch, John Roy. Facts of Reconstruction. Neale publishing: 1913.
David M. Callejo-Perez. Southern Hospitality: Identity, Schools, and the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi, 1964-1972. New York: Peter Lang, 2001.
McMurry, Linda. To Keep the Waters Troubled. Oxford Press: 1998.
Campbell, Claire T. Civil Rights Chronicle: Letters From the South. 264 pp. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.
Levine, Ellen. Freedom’s Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories. Penguin Putnam: 2000.