A couple of other books that reference the role of Lanier High School teachers and students in the struggle to gain civil rights of Blacks are:
Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody, and
Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi by John Dittmer.
The latter book contains material about Gladys Noel Bates (LHS Alumna) and R Jess Brown, then both teachers at Lanier, and their efforts to gain equal pay and rights for Blacks. R Jess Brown later became a well known civil rights attorney for whom it has been proposed the new Federal Court House in downtown Jackson, MS be named. See http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-399
For a biography of R Jess Brown, see excerts from Congressional record at
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/record.xpd?id=110-h20070306-36&person=400299
