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William Scarborough

Born — Died

1933-01-17 — 2020-05-17

Place of birth

Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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William Kauffman Scarborough was a professor emeritus of history at the University of Southern Mississippi. He was an outspoken opponent of school integration and supporter of massive resistance, believing white people to be the "superior race" and black people to be "genetically inferior", and was a member of the Citizens' Council in Mississippi.

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Freedom Summer poster
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In the summer of 1964, more than 700 students descended on violent, segregated Mississippi. Defying authorities, they registered voters, created freedom schools, and established the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Fifty years later, eyewitness accounts and never-before-seen archival material tell their story. Not all of them would make it through.

Freedom Summer

2014

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