Stanford Humanities Center
James Campbell is the Edgar E. Robinson Professor in United States History at Stanford University. His research focuses on African American history and the wider history of the Black Atlantic. His published works include Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005 and Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa.
SHC Project
Freedom Now: History, Memory, and the Mississippi Freedom Movement
Like individuals, nations fashion stories about their pasts. Freedom Now: History, Memory, and the Mississippi Freedom Movement explores this process in relationship to the Civil Rights movement, focusing in particular on events that occurred in Mississippi in the tumultuous summer of 1964. The book is intended not only as a study of the history and legacy of one of American history's most extraordinary popular movements but also as a meditation on the politics of memory, on the processes of remembering and forgetting at the heart of nation-making.
