Description: The history of a university professor's daring stand for principles during the movement for civil rights in Mississippi and the history behind the writing of his incisive analysis entitled Mississippi: The Closed Society in 1964
Brief description: James W. Silver (1907-1988) was professor of history at the University of Mississippi. He is author of Mississippi: The Closed Society, Running Scared: Silver in Mississippi, and Edmund Pendleton Gaines, Frontier General and editor (with John K. Bettersworth) of Mississippi in the Confederacy.