| Description |
xix, 71 pages ; 24 cm |
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text rdacontent |
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unmediated rdamedia |
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volume rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
What kills me -- Ambiguity over the Confederate flag -- Rotten fruit -- Humor me -- The N-word -- Southern sports -- Byron De La Beckwith dreaming I -- I'd wish I was in Dixie too -- Fire proof -- Listening to music -- Life apes art apes life : Byron De La Beckwith reflects on Birth of a nation -- White of way -- Music, niggers & Jews -- Swamp thing -- Stand by your man -- Husbandry -- Unwritten rules for young black boys wanting to live in Mississippi long enough to become men -- Byron De La Beckwith dreaming II -- After dinner in Money, Mississippi -- World war too -- Believing in hymn -- Southern bells -- Fighting extinction -- Harriet Tubman as villain : a ghost story -- Legal lynching -- After the FBI searched the bayou -- Haiku for Emmett Till -- No more fear -- When death moved in -- Byron De La Beckwith dreaming III -- After birth -- Sorority meeting -- One-third of 180 grams of lead -- Arlington -- Cross examination -- Bighearted -- Anatomy of hate -- What they call irony -- On moving to California -- Mississippi, two Mississippis -- A final accounting -- Now one wants to be president -- Epiphany -- Last meal haiku -- White knights -- Evers family secret recipe -- The assurance man -- Gift of time -- Heavy wait -- Time line. |
| Subject |
Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963 -- Poetry.
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United States -- Race relations -- Poetry.
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| Standard No. |
40022312990 |
| ISBN |
9780820345413 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0820345415 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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