Devil's Sanctuary : An Eyewitness History of Mississippi Hate Crimes.
Title:
Devil's Sanctuary : An Eyewitness History of Mississippi Hate Crimes.
Author:
Dickerson, James L.
ISBN:
9781569763148
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (400 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Front Flap -- Spine -- Copyright -- Dedications -- Contents -- Chronology vii -- PART I: In the Beginning -- 1 The Rose and the Thorn -- 2 Emmett Till: A Prelude to Terror -- 3 Mississippi Crosses the Line -- 4 The Lynching That Shocked the World -- 5 The Loose Ends of Government -- 6 Hoddy Toddy: The Integration of Ole Miss -- 7 The Assassination of Medgar Evers -- 8 Philadelphia Burning -- 9 Charles Moore and Henry Dee -- PART II: Complete Breakdown -- 10 Mississippi's Legal Jungle -- 11 Mississippi Gestapo -- 12 Praise the Lord, but Don't Seat the Blacks -- 13 All the News That's Fit to Print-for White Mississippians -- 14 Inside the FBI: The Truth About Mississippi -- PART III: Justice Delayed -- 15 Byron De La Beckwith: Ordeal by Trial and Error -- 16 Philadelphia Redux: Edgar Ray Killen Raised from the Dead -- 17 James Ford Seale: Time Runs Out for a Killer -- PART IV: Picking Up the Pieces -- 18 Atonement in a Haunted Land -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- Back Flap -- Back Cover.
Abstract:
Recalling the state's shameful racist history of lynching, arson, denial of rights, false imprisonment, and other heinous crimes, this riveting narrative explores how Mississippi became a safe haven for the most violent and virulent racists, who were immune to prosecution for their crimes. This sanctuary of the then status quo emerged from the 1956 Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission's efforts to preserve segregation and "Mississippi Values" by declaring the state outside the jurisdiction of the federal government. Analysis of the major crimes, the institutional collusion, delayed and never-delivered justice, and the state's attempts at atonement are interspersed with the authors' recollections of what they saw, heard, and experienced as whitesthus "insiders"during this troubled time. With commentary extending to the present day, this is both a well-researched history and an eyewitness record of living through an era of judicial, media, and economic terrorism directed against African Americans.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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