| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
ix, 369 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-355) and index. |
| Contents |
Part I: In the beginning: The rose and the thorn -- Emmett Till: a prelude to terror -- Mississippi crosses the line -- The lynching that shocked the world -- The loose ends of government -- Hoddy toddy: the intergration of Ole Miss -- The assassination of Medgar Evers -- Philadelphia burning -- Charles Moore and Henry Dee -- Part II: Complete breakdown: Mississippi's legal jungle -- Mississippi Gestapo -- Praise the Lord, but don't seat the blacks -- All the news that's fit to print-- for White Mississippians -- Inside the FBI: the truth about Mississippi -- Part III: Justice delayed: Byron De La Beckwith: ordeal by trial and error -- Philadelphia redux: Edgar Ray Killen raised from the dead -- James Ford Seale: time runs out for a killer -- Part IV: Picking up the pieces: Atonement in a haunted land. |
| Subject |
Hate crimes -- Mississippi.
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Mississippi -- Race relations.
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi.
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| Added Author |
Dickerson, James.
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| ISBN |
9781556527630 |
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1556527632 |
| Standard No. |
BWX R4787334 |
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CDX 9252083 |
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QBX a 09006245 |
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