Ghosts of Mississippi: The Murder of Medgar Evers, the Trials of Byron de La Beckwith, and the Haunting of the New South
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1995. First Edition. First Printing. 411, notes, index, publisher's press release laid in, DJ slightly soiled, small crease in bottom front DJ. 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 decades later, in his third trial, Beckwith was finally convicted of murder and sent to prison for life. Maryanne Vollers brings to light a host of new facts and insights about the case, weaving a compelling narrative that traces the journey from old South to new. Condition: very good, very good.
Keywords: Civil Rights, Racism, Discrimination, NAACP, Ku Klux Klan, Ross Barnett, Henry Aaron, Segregation, Medgar Evers
ISBN: 0316914851
[Book #42426]
Price: $31.50