Mississippi's Darkest Beach Day: The Riot They Tried to Hide In 1960, Dr. Gilbert Mason led 125 Black Americans onto a Mississippi beach their taxes had built. What followed was called "the worst racial riot in Mississippi history" by The New York Times—yet most Americans have never heard this story. This is the untold history of the Biloxi Wade-Ins: the first major civil rights campaign in Mississippi, the state-sponsored spy agency that monitored the protesters, and the eight-year legal battle