Mark is thrilled to have Dr. Nancy Bristow on the podcast today to discuss her book, "Steeped in the Blood of Racism: Black Power, Law and Order, and the 1970 Shootings at Jackson State College." The book sheds light on the tragedy that occurred on May 14, 1970, at Jackson State University, Mississippi.

Dr. Nancy K. Bristow is a Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Puget Sound, where she also serves on the leadership team of the Race and Pedagogy Institute. She is the author of three books, including Making Men Moral: Social Engineering and the Great War (NYU Press, 1996), American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic (Oxford University Press, 2012) and Steeped in the Blood of Racism: Black Power, Law and Order, and the 1970 Shootings at Jackson State College (Oxford University Press, 2020). Bristow has served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of American History and has offered historical commentary to news outlets ranging from the New York Times and The Nation to PBS and NPR.

Highlights from the episode:

• The massacre at Jackson State University on May 14, 1970, in Mississippi
• Dr. Nancy Bristow’s book, Steeped in the Blood of Racism: Black Power, Law and Order, and the 1970 Shootings at Jackson State College
• Was there Klan infiltration of both the Jackson police and highway patrol?
• What was going on in Mississippi around civil rights and black power in the 70s and 80s?
• The role of black students in the civil rights movement at Jackson State
• The shooting of Ben Brown and the emergence of black power in Mississippi
• The impact of desegregation on the campus
• What is Clarion-Ledger’s attitude towards civil rights and black power?
• How did Dr. Bristow become aware of the shooting at Jackson State?
• The current state of Mississippi

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