A Slow, Calculated Lynching: The Story of Clyde Kennard

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, a Korean War veteran and civil rights leader from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, attempted repeatedly to enroll at the all-white Mississippi Southern College in the late 1950s.



In A Slow, Calculated Lynching, Devery S. Anderson tells the story of a man who paid the ultimate price for trying to a...