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Apr 1, 1995 · The Ghosts of Mississippi follows the story of Medgar Evers, one of the leaders of the civil rights movement, and his murder at the hands of Byron De La Beckwith, a crime that is now 50 years old.
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Apr 1, 1995 · The civil rights movement was just beginning to catch fire in Mississippi on the night in 1963 when white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith crouched in the honeysuckle across the street from NAACP leader Medgar Evers's house and shot him in the back. Three trials and thirty years later, a jury convicted Beckwith of murder and sent him to prison ...
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Sep 8, 2010 · In Ghosts of Mississippi, journalist Maryanne Vollers tells the inside story of that state's struggle to confront the ghosts of its violent past in order to bring a killer to justice. Medgar Evers was a martyr of the sixties, the first man down in the decade of the assassin.
Jun 20, 2013 · Ghosts of Mississippi : the murder of Medgar Evers, the trials of Byron de la Beckwith, and the haunting of the new South : Vollers, Maryanne : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
In Ghosts of Mississippi, journalist Maryanne Vollers tells the inside story of that state's struggle to confront the ghosts of its violent past in order...
- Maryanne Vollers
- 411 pages
- 0316914851, 9780316914857
- Little, Brown, 1995
Ghosts of Mississippi: The Murder of Medgar Evers, the Trials of Byron de La Beckwith, and the Haunting of the New South. Maryanne Vollers. Little Brown and Company, $24.95 (411pp) ISBN...
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In the literature of the civil rights movement, Ghosts of Mississippi, stands out like a jewel! Maryanne Vollers brings vast insight and a fine writer's eye to and agonizing and shameful event in American histoy--the murder of civil rights activist Medgar Evers and the three trials it took to convict his killer.
