Carol V.R. George is Research Professor of History at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

"In One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, church historian Carol V. R. George offers a complex and timely examination of race, religion, and the construction of memory and history in America....This account of the persistent witness of Mt. Zion to justice and equity over nearly two centuries, combined with the hard work of the Philadelphia Coalition in Neshoba County, offers both a hopeful and sobering case study for those confronting systemic racism and seeking justice and reconciliation."--Journal of the American Academy of Religion

"[George's] work will always be a useful resource. However, in this particular season of American life and politics, her words not only evoke a time gone by but can hint at a future that may be filled with its own sinister developments."--Journal of Southern Religion

"Flannery O'Connor wrote about the value of 'reading a small history in a universal light.' In writing her extraordinary analytic history of Mt. Zion Methodist Church in Philadelphia, Mississippi, Carol V.R. George has taken O'Connor's injunction to heart. The result is an exceptional book that uses the history of a single church, albeit a historically resonant one, as the lens through which to interrogate the enduring American dilemma of race. An altogether exemplary work that humanizes and localizes the dilemma as few other works ever have."--Douglas McAdam, author of Deeply Divided: Racial Politics and Social Movements in Postwar America

"Carol V. R. George skillfully employs the best traditions of storytelling and micro-history to illuminate the African-American freedom struggle in Neshoba County, Mississippi, the site of the 1964 murders of Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and James Chaney. While her focus is on the struggles and triumphs of a single church--the Mt. Zion Methodist Church of Longdale--George's greatest contribution is a searching exploration of the complex connections between both history and memory and myth and reality."--Raymond Arsenault, author of Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice

"By taking religion seriously, Carol V.R. George, vividly recounts why African Americans stayed in Mississippi despite the horrors of segregation, why some whites fought tenaciously to preserve their privilege, and how blacks and whites from a variety of backgrounds implicated the Methodist Church in the fight for civil rights. Read this book to better understand 1964 and the slow, non-linear march toward progress, reconciliation and inclusion."--Earl Lewis, President, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation