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How Mississippi’s Black/Brown Strategy Beat the South’s Anti-Immigrant Wave

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A campaign that brought together African-Americans and undocumented workers stopped an anti-immigrant bill in its tracks.

Read more: http://www.thenation.com/article/167465/how-mississippis-blackbrown-strategy-beat-souths-anti-immigrant-wave

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David Bacon

David Bacon is a writer and photographer, and a former factory worker and union organizer. His latest book, In the Fields of the North / En los Campos del Norte, documents the lives of farm workers in photographs and oral histories. He is a member of the Pacific Media Workers Guild, CWA local 39521, and has been an immigrant rights activist for many years.