This U.S. state was the location of the 1795 Yazoo Land Fraud, and was the subject of a controversial 1962 book by James Silver, which dubbed it The Closed Society. This state had a government-funded Sovereignty Commission during the Civil Rights era, and was the location of the 1964 Freedom Summer voting registration campaign. That campaign in this state saw the deaths of three civil rights workers by white supremacists outside the town of Philadelphia in this
non-Pennsylvania state. For 10 points, name this Southern state, nicknamed the Magnolia State.
a) Georgia
b) Alabama
c) Mississippi
d) Louisiana