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The Risk

Civil rights work in Mississippi in 1964 was dangerous. Those who had been on the ground in the state for decades knew that well. But some were less aware of the danger. As Eleanor Holmes Norton recalls, "We didn't have the very complete understanding of what that risk was. But what impressed me was that there were black Mississippians who did know, who did know how dangerous it was."

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