This is the decisive battleground for America. Nowhere in the world is the idea of white supremacy more firmly entrenched, or more cancerous, than in Mississippi. —MICHAEL SCHWERNER, TWENTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST MURDERED BY MEMBERS OF THE KKK, ALONG WITH ANDREW GOODMAN AND JAMES CHANEY, BOTH TWENTY-ONE, IN MISSISSIPPI IN 1964
