A Slow, Calculated Lynching: The Story of Clyde Kennard
Devery S. Anderson
University Press of Mississippi
In the years following Brown v. Board of Education, countless Black citizens endured violent resistance and even death while fighting for their constitutional rights. One of those citizens, Clyde Kennard (1927–1963), a Korean War veteran and civil rights leader from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, attempted repeatedly to enroll at the all-white Mississippi Southern College—now the University of Southern Mississippi—in the late 1950s.
Devery S. Anderson tells the story of a man who paid the ultimate price for trying to attend a white college during Jim Crow.