Dorothy Overstreet Pratt is retired from the Department of History at the University of South Carolina. She taught previously at the University of Notre Dame, where she also served as assistant dean in the College of Arts and Letters.
Pratt is convincing when she traces many of the problems of
twentieth century Mississippi to the 1890 Constitutional
Convention. She notes that Mississippi and South Carolina were
typically at the bottom of a host of economic and social measures,
attributing the low rankings to tax policies and school funding
issues that arose under the new Constitution. Further, it is hard
to argue with her conclusion that because of that document, "the
civil rights era was preordained."--Stephen Cresswell, West
Virginia Wesleyan College "The Journal of Mississippi History"
A compelling portrait of an understudied episode in American
constitutional and political history.--Cynthia Nicoletti,
University of Virginia School of Law "Journal of Southern History,
Volume LXXXV, No. 2, May 2019"
For the first time, the full story of Mississippi's turn from the
use of violence and terrorism toward legal constitutional means of
enforcing white supremacy is told. Dorothy Overstreet Pratt takes
us inside the lives of those men who crafted Mississippi's
Constitution of 1890. The story she tells is complicated and
troubling, and it is a story only a skilled historian and native
Mississippian such as she could tell.--Don H. Doyle, McCausland
Professor of History, emeritus, University of South Carolina, and
author of Faulkner's County: The Historical Roots of Yoknapatawpha
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