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thank you, my friend. >> thank you. >> always good to talk to you. author of standing my ground, harry dunn. tonight, you have heard from the authors of several great books and now i'm really excited to tell you about my own book, which comes out after the holidays. by way of background, just after new year's day in 1963, james baldwin arrived in mississippi, as he embarked on a lecture tour through the american south for the congress on racial equality. the tour was launched in response to the violent riots that accompanied integration of the university of mississippi month before. meredith's push to enterrole miss had been backed by medgar evers who had himself been rejected pie the college simply because he was black. baldwin didn't just dine with medgar and myrlie evers at their home in jackson's lone one-block black middle class subdivision. he also rode with medgar into the delta, where medgar spent long days investigating the everyday indignities and vicious