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Devil's sanctuary : an eyewitness history of Mississippi hate crimes / Alex A. Alston, Jr. and James L. Dickerson.
Van Pelt Library HV6773.53.M7 A47 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alston, Alex A., Jr., 1936-2009
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hate crimes--Mississippi.
- Hate crimes.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- Mississippi--Race relations.
- Mississippi.
- Race relations.
- African Americans--Civil rights--Mississippi.
- African Americans.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 369 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, Ill. : Lawrence Hill Books, [2009]
- 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 integration 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-355) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781556527630
- 1556527632
- OCLC:
- 276815634
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