Justice in Mississippi: The Murder Trial of Edgar Ray Killen
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (709 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0700614613 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 270 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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Indeed, the trial itself was a major catalytic force for change in Mississippi, enabling Mississippians to convey a much more positive national image for their state.Ball's gripping account illuminates all of this and shows that, despite racism's long stranglehold on the Deep South, redemption is not beyond the grasp of those who envision a more just society.. Originally tried in 1967, Baptist minister and Klansman Edgar Ray Killen was set free because one juror couldn't bring herself to convict a preacher. Now Ball revisits that grisly crime to tell how, four decades later, justice finally came to Philadelphia. Ball, himself a former civil rights activist, attended the trial and interviewed most of the participants, as well as local citizens and journalists covering the proceedings.Ball retraces the cycle of events that led to the resurrection of this "cold case," from the attention generated by the film Mississippi Burning to a new state attorney general's quest for closure. Now Ball tells how progressive-minded state officials finally re-opened the case and, forty years after the fact, enabled Mississippians to reconcile with their tragic past. The slaying of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi, in 1964 was a notorious event documented in Howard Ball's 2004 book Murder in Mississippi. He reviews the strategies of the prosecution and defense and examines the evidence introduced at the trial-as well as evidence that could not be presen
"The "Mississippi Burning" case of three murdered civil-rights workers in" according to John A Driscoll. The "Mississippi Burning" case of three murdered civil-rights workers in 196The "Mississippi Burning" case of three murdered civil-rights workers in John A Driscoll The "Mississippi Burning" case of three murdered civil-rights workers in 1964. Only this book brings you into modern-times, and the long-awaited justice that finally claimed one of this Klan mass-murder's conspiritors. Don Whitehead couldn'twouldn't write this book.. . Only this book brings you into modern-times, and the long-awaited justice that finally claimed one of this Klan mass-murder's conspiritors. Don Whitehead couldn'twouldn't write this book.. Perfect resource! I used this book as a reference while teaching my students about the Civil Rights Movement. This was an excellent source for them!
With Killen's conviction, he writes, "There is at last the beginning of racial reconciliation." 28 b&w photos. 8)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. . Ball, a Vermont Law School professor, clearly articulates his view of the trial as "a prism through which to gauge the nature of change in a city, a county, and a state that have resisted change using violence and even murder—for hundreds of years." Ball also has a point of view, and throughout his harrowing description of the degradations blacks routinely suffered in pre–Civil Rights movement Mississippi, he displays a deep sense of outrage and