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'Let There Be One': P.D. East, The Petal Paper and the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi
<p>P.D. East is a misunderstood figure. He was the sole white Mississippi native to offer unqualified support to racial equality in the pages of a newspaper he owned during the earliest days of the Civil Rights Movement. Yet the few depictions of his life and work in The Petal Paper that exist, …
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"Black and White Together, We Shall Win": Southern White Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
… little scholarly attention: journalist P.D East, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) activist Buford Posey, and William Carey president Ralph Noonkester. While their contributions between 1950-1971 differed, being white and active in the Deep South connects all …