Devils walking : Klan murders along the Mississippi in the 1960s / Stanley Nelson ; foreword by Greg Iles ; afterword by Hank Klibanoff.

"After midnight on December 10, 1964, in Ferriday, Louisiana, African American Frank Morris awoke to the sound of breaking glass. Outside his home and shoe shop, standing behind the shattered window, Klansmen tossed a lit match inside the store, now doused in gasoline, and instantly set the building...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nelson, Stanley, 1955 September 18- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) > History > 20th century.
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) > Interviews.
African Americans > Violence against > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Murder > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Murder > Investigation > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Witnesses > Mississippi > Interviews.
Interviews > Mississippi.
Racism > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Corruption > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Mississippi > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Genre:
Interviews.
Physical Description:xxii, 280 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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