A Slow, Calculated Lynching: The Story of Clyde Kennard

"Americans likely know how James Meredith made history in 1962 as the first Black student admitted to the all-white University of Mississippi. But before Meredith, another Black Mississippi veteran, Clyde Kennard, tried repeatedly to integrate Mississippi Southern College in Hattiesburg (now the University of Southern Mississippi). And he paid a great price for it. This meticulously researched book reveals how Kennard was wrongly imprisoned in Mississippi’s infamous Parchman prison farm, where he was denied proper medical care despite a cancer diagnosis. It reveals the chilling tactics the state of Mississippi employed to preserve white supremacy."