| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.1

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The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission: Civil Rights and States' Rights. By Yasuhiro Katagiri. (Jackson: University Press of Missis-sippi, 2001. xxxvi, 348 pp. $40.00, ISBN 1-57806-388-4.

A professor of American history at Tokai University in Japan, Yasuhiro Katagiri has written the first scholarly history of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission. Charged officially with protecting state sovereignty, the commission also had a clear, if unstated, objective of defending racial segregation and opposing the civil rights movement. In the 1950s, the Sovereignty Commission soon became known as the state's segregation watch-dog agency. Katagiri follows it from its creation by the legislature in March 1956 until its abolition by statute in 1977. Katagiri joins his valuable outsider's perspective with a close examination of 132,000 pages of the secretive commission's records, which became available in March 1998, and he supplements the files with other archival materials, thirty oral histories (mostly by others), and secondary sources.

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