PRC Show Episode 60: Reading Parting the Waters 015

Chapter Seventeen: The Fall Of Ole Miss SNCC office attacked, the struggle of registering people to vote, more church burning, King attacked, all the and more and the sage of James Meredith and Old Miss In this chapter we learn: -Who says “they should point their guns at us and then we could step aside.” -What is the Council of Federated Organizations? -Another example of Bob Moses acting calm as always. -if it’s easy or difficult to register black people to vote in mississippi. -what the capitalist class of Birmingham want from King and the SCLC -more of Rockefeller trolling JFK -what does the concept “remove the office, instead of the man” refer to. -how MLK responds when he’s assaulted by a Nazi. -the James Meredith Ole Miss registration saga / riot. In this special episode with Josh and Sean, we hear the historic archival conversation between JFK and Governor of Mississippi Ross Barnett discuss the confrontation around black student James Meredith trying to register at the University of Mississippi.