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author of Sanctuaries of Segregation: The Story of the Jackson Church Visit Campaign
winner of the 2017 Eudora Welty Prize
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Carter Dalton Lyon chairs the History Department at St. Mary’s Episcopal School in Memphis, Tennessee, where he lives with his wife and daughters. His Eudora Welty Prize-winning book, Sanctuaries of Segregation: the Story of the Jackson Church Visit Campaign, studies an important milestone in the Civil Rights movement in Mississippi’s state capital, where a sustained campaign was mounted in 1963-64. He explores its history, the attempts at interracial dialogue it inspired, and the efforts to stop the campaign by the state and the Citizen’s Council, including forty arrests.