Category Archives: I hate backstory

Sovereign

Starting in 1958 the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission gathered information and disseminated it to local law enforcement, the Klan, Citizen’s Councils, and anyone else who could combat integration.  Juries were rigged.  Blacks were bribed to serve as informants.  The State of Mississippi was as an accessory to murder. By 1972 the commission had become a liability.  […]