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established by law something they called the mississippi state sovereignty commission. in 1956 the legislature in mississippi passed and then governor j.p. coleman signed a law creating the sovereignty commission for the purpose of defying the federal government and specifically of preserving racial segregation in mississippi. the sovereignty commission's work included spying on the citizens of mississippi and on outside activists who joined them in pushing for civil rights in the state. they collected their photographs and they found out their names and they compiled intelligence reports on the people of mississippi. and this secret work went on for a very long time, long enough to go from grainy black and white photos like these to full color, long enough to capture thousands of images of people who we don't necessarily know and also images of people like martin luther king jr. this is one of dr. king's mug shots as found in the files of the mississippi state
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including the state itself. i mean, this memo came from a state agency. it came from the mississippi state sovereignty commission. the memo is cc'd to the governor's office. the memo that says let's hide the part in our files that shows that we were interfering with black people's right to vote in this state. that's part of what we did. let's hide that part of the files. cc the governor. they broke ground on the museum in mississippi in october. everybody was there for the groundbreaking. governor phil bryant, you see there on the left. he gave a big speech. almost hidden by the flag on the right is the widow of the civil rights martyr medgar evers. among the items you'll be able to consider in the new museum is the gun, the hunting rifle, that was used to kill her husband. this is very difficult stuff. but they are going ahead in mississippi. you can see in this photo from the jackson free press that ms.
including the state itself. i mean, this memo came from a state agency. it came from the mississippi state sovereignty commission. the memo is cc'd to the governor's office. the memo that says let's hide the part in our files that shows that we were interfering with black people's right to vote in this state. that's part of what we did. let's hide that part of the files. cc the governor. they broke ground on the museum in mississippi in october. everybody was there for the groundbreaking. governor phil bryant, you see there on the left. he gave a big speech. almost hidden by the flag on the right is the widow of the civil rights martyr medgar evers. among the items you'll be able to consider in the new museum is the gun, the hunting rifle, that was used to kill her husband. this is very difficult stuff. but they are going ahead in mississippi. you can see in this photo from the jackson free press that ms. he was really is nearly hidden
uncomfortable story of the people who fought against it. including the state itself. i mean, this memo came from a state agency. it came from the mississippi state sovereignty commission. the memo is cc'd to the governor's office. the memo that says let's hide the part in our files that shows that we were interfering with black people's right to vote in this state. that's part of what we did. let's hide that part of the files. cc the governor. they broke ground on the museum in mississippi in october. everybody was there for the groundbreaking. governor phil bryant, you see there on the left. he gave a big speech. almost hidden by the flag on the right is the widow of the civil rights martyr medgar evers. among the items you'll be able to consider in the new museum is the gun, the hunting rifle, that was use d to kill her husband. this is very difficult stuff. but they are going ahead in mississip mississippi.
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