Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword How Do We Comply?: Answering the Call of Medgar Evers -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I Dixie Suite -- What Kills Me -- Ambiguity over the Confederate Flag -- Rotten Fruit -- Humor Me -- The N-Word -- Southern Sports -- Byron De La Beckwith Dreaming I -- I'd Wish I Was in Dixie Too -- Part II Southern Dreams -- Fire Proof -- Listening to Music -- Life Apes Art Apes Life: Byron De La Beckwith Reflects on Birth of a Nation -- White of Way -- Music, Niggers & Jews -- Swamp Thing -- Stand by Your Man -- Husbandry -- Unwritten Rules for Young Black Boys Wanting to Live in Mississippi Long Enough to Become Men -- Part III Look Away, Look Away … -- Byron De La Beckwith Dreaming II -- After Dinner in Money, Mississippi -- World War Too -- Believing in Hymn -- Southern Bells -- Fighting Extinction -- Harriet Tubman as Villain: A Ghost Story -- Legal Lynching -- After the FBI Searched the Bayou -- Haiku for Emmett Till -- No More Fear -- When Death Moved In -- Part IV Gallant South -- Byron De La Beckwith Dreaming III -- After Birth -- Sorority Meeting -- One-Third of 180 Grams of Lead -- Arlington -- Cross-Examination -- Bighearted -- Anatomy of Hate -- What They Call Irony -- On Moving to California -- Part V Bitter Fruit -- One Mississippi, Two Mississippis -- A Final Accounting -- Now One Wants to Be President -- Epiphany -- Last Meal Haiku -- White Knights -- Evers Family Secret Recipe -- The Assurance Man -- Gift of Time -- Heavy Wait -- Time Line -- Bibliography.