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Author: Howard Ball Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 278
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The compelling real-life story of the criminal investigation, indictment, and trial of Edgar Ray Killen, the preacher and former Ku Klux Klansman finally convicted in June 2005 for the deaths of three civil rights workers--forty-one years after their brutal murders. A stunning final chapter to the case immortalized in the movie Mississippi Burning.
Author: Howard Ball Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 278
Book Description
The compelling real-life story of the criminal investigation, indictment, and trial of Edgar Ray Killen, the preacher and former Ku Klux Klansman finally convicted in June 2005 for the deaths of three civil rights workers--forty-one years after their brutal murders. A stunning final chapter to the case immortalized in the movie Mississippi Burning.
Author: Ruth Vander Zee Publisher: Eerdmans Young Readers ISBN: 9780802852113 Category : African Americans Languages : en Pages : 42
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Set in 1933 Mississippi, this thought-provoking story about a young boy who lives in an environment of racial hatred will challenge young readers to question their own assumptions and confront personal decisions. Full color.
Author: Edward Humes Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0671535056 Category : Crime Languages : en Pages : 460
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Documents governmental and political corruption in the Deep South through the story of a daughter who seeks justice when her parents are slain in Mississippi.
Author: Rick Bowers Publisher: National Geographic Books ISBN: 1426307365 Category : Young Adult Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 136
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The Spies of Mississippi is a compelling story of how state spies tried to block voting rights for African Americans during the Civil Rights era. This book sheds new light on one of the most momentous periods in American history. Author Rick Bowers has combed through primary-source materials and interviewed surviving activists named in once-secret files, as well as the writings and oral histories of Mississippi civil rights leaders. Readers get first-hand accounts of how neighbors spied on neighbors, teachers spied on students, ministers spied on church-goers, and spies even spied on spies. The Spies of Mississippi will inspire readers with the stories of the brave citizens who overcame the forces of white supremacy to usher in a new era of hope and freedom—an age that has recently culminated in the election of Barack Obama
Author: Carol V. R. George Publisher: ISBN: 0190231084 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 319
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Carol George offers a micro-history of Neshoba County, Mississippi: a place that has decided to break its silence and confront a past of racial injustice and violence.
Author: Jerry Mitchell Publisher: Simon & Schuster ISBN: 1451645147 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 448
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“For almost two decades, investigative journalist Jerry Mitchell doggedly pursued the Klansmen responsible for some of the most notorious murders of the civil rights movement. This book is his amazing story. Thanks to him, and to courageous prosecutors, witnesses, and FBI agents, justice finally prevailed.” —John Grisham, author of The Guardians On June 21, 1964, more than twenty Klansmen murdered three civil rights workers. The killings, in what would become known as the “Mississippi Burning” case, were among the most brazen acts of violence during the civil rights movement. And even though the killers’ identities, including the sheriff’s deputy, were an open secret, no one was charged with murder in the months and years that followed. It took forty-one years before the mastermind was brought to trial and finally convicted for the three innocent lives he took. If there is one man who helped pave the way for justice, it is investigative reporter Jerry Mitchell. In Race Against Time, Mitchell takes readers on the twisting, pulse-racing road that led to the reopening of four of the most infamous killings from the days of the civil rights movement, decades after the fact. His work played a central role in bringing killers to justice for the assassination of Medgar Evers, the firebombing of Vernon Dahmer, the 16th Street Church bombing in Birmingham and the Mississippi Burning case. Mitchell reveals how he unearthed secret documents, found long-lost suspects and witnesses, building up evidence strong enough to take on the Klan. He takes us into every harrowing scene along the way, as when Mitchell goes into the lion’s den, meeting one-on-one with the very murderers he is seeking to catch. His efforts have put four leading Klansmen behind bars, years after they thought they had gotten away with murder. Race Against Time is an astonishing, courageous story capturing a historic race for justice, as the past is uncovered, clue by clue, and long-ignored evils are brought into the light. This is a landmark book and essential reading for all Americans.
Author: James W. Loewen Publisher: Waveland Press ISBN: 1478609400 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 288
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This scholarly, carefully researched book studies one of the most overlooked minority groups in Americathe Chinese of the Mississippi Delta. During Reconstruction, white plantation owners imported Chinese sharecroppers in the hope of replacing their black laborers. In the beginning they were classed with blacks. But the Chinese soon moved into the towns and became almost without exception, owners of small groceries. Loewen details their astounding transition from black to essentially white status with an insight seldom found in studies of race relationships in the Deep South.
Author: Maryanne Vollers Publisher: Little Brown & Company ISBN: 9780316914857 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 411
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An examination of a noted civil rights case involving the murder of an NAACP official and his killer's three trials draws comparisons between the case and the racial climate in the Deep South
Author: Howard Ball
Author: Howard Ball
Author: Ruth Vander Zee
Author: Edward Humes
Author: Rick Bowers
Author: Carol V. R. George
Author: Eddy Harris
Author: Jerry Mitchell
Author: United States Commission on Civil Rights. Mississippi Advisory Committee
Author: James W. Loewen
Author: Maryanne Vollers