To Be Born Black in Mississippi: Why I became a Civil Rights Lawyer

by Kenneth Darryl Mayfield Sr.

You are about to read the story of a young black man from Okolona, Mississippi who was kicked out of Mississippi's flagship university for protesting against racial discrimination. This journey shows Ole Miss as it was during the 1960s after it was forcibly integrated in a violent struggle that resulted in two people being killed, and it also shows how years after Ole Miss was desegregated, blacks were still not allowed to be on the faculty, barred...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 146370285X
• ISBN13: 9781463702854
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"