TY - BOOK AU - Bowers,Rick TI - Spies of Mississippi: the true story of the spy network that tried to destroy the Civil Rights Movement SN - 9781426305955 PY - 2010/// CY - Washington, D.C PB - National Geographic KW - Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission KW - History KW - African Americans KW - Civil Rights KW - Mississippi KW - Segregation KW - Civil rights movements KW - 20th century KW - Race relations N2 - In the 1950s and 1960s, the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission compiled secret files on more than 87,000 private citizens in the most extensive state spying program in U.S. history. Its mission: to save segregation ER -