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August 29, 1964

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The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi

Calvin Trillin

From 1964: Calvin Trillin on an encounter with Martin Luther King, Jr., during a summer of pressure.

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THE INLAND SEA

Morton M. Hunt