Blood Justice: The Lynching of Mack Charles Parker
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Book Overview
Based on previously unreleased FBI and Justice Department documents, extensive interviews with many of the surviving principals involved in the case, and a variety of newspaper accounts, Smead meticulously reconstructs the full story of one of the last lynchings in America, detailing a grim, dramatic, but nearly forgotten episode from the Civil Rights era.
In 1959, a white mob in Poplarville, Mississippi abducted a young black man named Mack Charles...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0195054296
ISBN13:9780195054293
Release Date:April 1988
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:248 Pages
Weight:0.56 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.4" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
4 ratings
a tough but good read
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
This book is well researched and well written. It does an excellent job of chronicling the series of events that took place with vivid detail. Although the book does not read fast, it is still well worth taking the time to read.
An Absolute Must !
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
Thanks to the diligent work of Howard Smead,Blood Justice will become a cornerstone in every civil rights library.
Clear, in depth account of a tragic example of lynch mob justice.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
This book accomplishes everything it sets out to do.
Interesting read
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
I read this for a History class and I found it interesting. Nuff said.
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