Скачать или смотреть Driving History #5: Tracking Big Jim (Eastland)

Senator James O. Eastland, a force in Mississippi politics for much of the 20th century, was born nine months after his father lead a lynch mob and was reared by a mother who rose to leadership in the Daughters of the Confederacy and taught him the myths of the Lost Cause.

As a U.S. Senator, he fought integration and civil rights for people of color, although he had effective working relationships with Democrats such as John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Jimmy Carter, as they surfed the switchover of Dixiecrats and "states rights" supporters from the Democratic to the Republican party in the 1960s and 1970s. In this episode, we visit the Eastlands' graves in Scott County, the courthouse and the site of Luther Holbert's lynching murder in 1904 in the Mississippi Delta.

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https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...
https://www.sctonline.net/features/hi...
https://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_E...