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34 . Dittmer, Local People, 150-151 ; Forman, Black Revolutionaries, 296; Payne,
Light of Freedom , 168, 205, 221 .
35 . Dittmer, Loyal People . 151 . Forman originally wanted to take a solely direct
action approach but Bob Moses, based upon the fallout ofdirect action in
McComb, had reservations about a direct action protest in Greenwood . Forman
and Moses reached a compromise and combined the march with the action of the
marchers going to the courthouse to attempt to register and vote .
36. Watkins, interview with the author.
37 . Dittmer, Local People . 150-151 ; Forman, Black Revolutionaries, 297, Payne,
Light of Freedom, 168-169 .
38 . Payne, Light of Freedom . 208-209 .
39 . Watkins, interview with the author.
40. Jay McCleod, introduction to Minds Staved On Freedom : The Civil Rights
Struggle in the Rural South by the Youth of Rural Organizing and Cultural Center
(Boulder, Colo . : Westview, 1991), 10 ; Dittmer, Local People . 190-191 .
41 . Hartman Turnbow, interviewed by Howell Raines in My Soul is Rested,
261-262 .
42. Ibid, 262-263 ; Rev. J.J . Russell interviewed by Kenneth Sallis, Willa
Williams, and Jennifer Dixon in My Soul is Rested , 24-25 .
43 . Dittmer, Local People, 193 ; Turnbow interviewed by Raines, My Soul is
Rested. 263-264; Russell interviewed by Sallis, Williams, and Dixon, Minds
Staved On Freedom. 25-27 .
44 . Cobb, interviewed by Dent; Watkins, interview by the author ; Turnbow,
interviewed by Raines, My Soul is Rested . 265-266 .
45 . Dave Dennis, interviewed by Tom Dent, October 8, 1983, Lafayette, Louisiana;
Meier and Rudwick, CORE . 114-116 .
46 . Meier and Rudwick, CORE , 137-139, 143-144 .