Devil's sanctuary : an eyewitness history of Mississippi hate crimes / Alex A. Alston, Jr. and James L. Dickerson.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alston, Alex A., 1936-
Other Authors: Dickerson, James
Language:English
Published: Chicago, Ill. : Lawrence Hill Books, [2009], ©2009.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Hate crimes > Mississippi.
African Americans > Civil rights > Mississippi.
Mississippi > Race relations.
Physical Description:ix, 369 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
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.