Sons of Mississippi : : a Story of Race and its Legacy
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Prologue: Nothing is ever escaped -- Part one: Deeds of the fathers -- Dying Billy -- Lost boy -- Grimsley -- John Henry, Jimmy Bob -- The Man with his back turned -- Part two: Filling up the frame -- American haunting -- Part three: Hopes of the sons -- Sometimes trashy, sometimes luminous -- The Distance from Natchez, Mississippi, to Santa Teresa, New Mexico -- In the family of Meredith: loving what is theirs -- Confederate shadows: good son -- Epilogue: Hope and history rhyming -- A Bibliographical essay.
A study of the legacy of racial intolerance profiles seven white Mississippi sheriffs who took part in the violence that resulted from the attempted integration of the University of Mississippi.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
Year Published: 2003
Description: xii, 343 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780375704253
0375404619 :
SUBJECTS
Sheriffs -- Mississippi -- Attitudes -- Case studies.
Sheriffs -- Mississippi -- Biography.
Sheriffs -- Family relationships -- Mississippi.
White people -- Mississippi -- Attitudes -- Case studies.
White people -- Mississippi -- Biography.
African Americans -- History. -- Mississippi
Racism -- Mississippi -- Case studies.
Racism -- United States -- Case studies.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
Race relations.
Racism.
Sheriffs.
Sheriffs -- Attitudes.
White people.
White people -- Attitudes.
Sheriffs -- Mississippi -- Attitudes -- Case studies.
Sheriffs -- Mississippi -- Biography.
Sheriffs -- Mississippi -- Family relationships.
White people -- Mississippi -- Attitudes -- Case studies.
African Americans -- History. -- Mississippi
Prejudices -- Mississippi -- Case studies.
Prejudices -- United States -- Case studies.
Mississippi -- Race relations.
Mississippi -- Biography.
Mississippi.
United States.
Mississippi -- Race relations.
Biographies.
Case studies.
History.
Case studies.
Biographies.