Murder in Mississippi : United States v. Price and the struggle for civil rights / Howard Ball.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ball, Howard, 1937-

Series:

Landmark law cases & American society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trials (Murder)--Mississippi.

Trials (Murder).

Murder--Mississippi--Neshoba County--History--20th century.

Murder.

Civil rights workers--Crimes against--Mississippi--Neshoba County--History--20th century.

Civil rights workers.

Goodman, Andrew, 1943-1964.

Goodman, Andrew.

Chaney, James Earl, 1943-1964.

Chaney, James Earl.

Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939-1964.

Schwerner, Michael Henry.

Civil rights workers--Crimes against.

History.

Mississippi--Neshoba County.

Mississippi.

Physical Description:

xv, 171 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, [2004]

Summary:

Few episodes in the modern civil rights movement were more galvanizing or more memorialized than the brutal murders of Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney -- idealists eager to protect and promote the rights of black Americans, even in the deep and very dangerous South. In films like Mississippi Burning and popular folk songs, these young men have been venerated as martyrs. Even so, the landmark legal dimensions of their murder case have until now remained largely lost. Murder in Mississippi provides a timely and telling reminder of the vigilance democracy requires if its ideals are to be fully realized.

Contents:

Driving on Highway 19 to Philadelphia, Mississippi

Genesis : Mississippi and the struggle for racial equality

COFO'S "Mississippi Freedom Summer" project : the battle line is drawn

Informants and indictments

U.S. v. Price in the U.S. Supreme Court

The trial in Federal District Court

Is there justice in Mississippi?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-162) and index.

ISBN:

0700613153

0700613161

OCLC:

53360518