[1] Editors Powell and Williams explicitly chose not to make Mississippi Freelance an underground publication.
In 1969, Powell told a reporter for The Delta Review: Undergrounds are largely ineffective in changing the political situation because they're so far removed from it.
[3] At the time of the paper's founding, Powell and Williams shared a rental house on Washington Avenue in Greenville, which also served as the business and editorial offices for Mississippi Freelance.
[2]Powell correctly predicted the longevity of Mississippi Freelance in that interview: I have some money saved, and I'm single.
[4] Its first issue in April 1969 included an interview with New York congressman Allard Lowenstein; a humor piece by Williams pointing out that "many of the men on top of Mississippi's power heap" were former cheerleaders; and an exclusive interview by Powell with an officer in the Memphis Invaders, an African American militant group.