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To paraphrase an American activist: Mississippi is especially racially divided today because "Black people resisted white supremacy more militantly there than any other state." What is this referencing? How did black Mississippians respond to pressure from white supremacists from Reconstruction on?

by /u/TendingTheirGarden in /r/AskHistorians

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