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.