‘A Slow, Calculated Lynching' author visits USM
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - The author of a book about civil rights icon Clyde Kennard was in Hattiesburg Friday to promote his work and the legacy...
May 4, 2023
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HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - The author of a book about civil rights icon Clyde Kennard was in Hattiesburg Friday to promote his work and the legacy of his subject. Devery Anderson, who wrote, 'A Slow, Calculated Lynching,' was on the Hattiesburg campus of the University of Southern Mississippi, the school that Kennard tried to desegregate in the 1950s. He never was granted admission. 'As an individual, he was a very good person, helped everybody, Anderson said of the black United States Army veteran.
Emily Blackmarr