that is one example, to prove james meredith's father raised the vote you would go to the court house and go through the voting registration books until you find mr. meredith. as far as i know, no one has done that. to verify he was an independent loan donor you have to follow those through the years. you bet is the research. then i spent two chapters on what might at first seem like a rather uninteresting topic and that is meredith's lawsuit in mississippi. james meredith verses the board of trustees. you see in real detail the on abstinence of the power structure in mississippi to james meredith. the lawyers in the state, the members of the board of trustees, the federal judge involved, the assistant attorney general and others. they put up an incredible fight to keep him out. i won't go into the language they use but let's just say in all cases they are not respectful of mr. meredith and his counsel at the naacp. you will find real examples, concrete evidence of the opposition that he faced. the third section of the book deals with several attempts to the rest james meredith from t

james meredith himself could not have caused the controversy.and early '60s that provides the context. it's that social/cultural situation that he inserts himself in that triggers the reaction. so that's one thing i do that is quite different in this book than what anybody else is doing. i try and let the reader see what mississippi in the 1950s and early '60s was like. jim silver, the professor at the university, described this in the mid 1960s as the mississippi closed to society. well, i don't want to tell you about it, i want to show you. so i study a number of incidents and watch them build. the second thing that i do that i think a number of people don't do, haven't done is i do focus on james peridi. -- meredith. and in focusing on him, i examine him as a real person more than others have. he's not a care rickture, he's not a stereotype, he's not what people think he is. i wanted, i wanted to explain him as he really was. and i benefit greatly from an interview with him and from having access to his personal papers which no one else has d