Justice in Mississippi: The Murder Trial of Edgar Ray Killen

by Howard Ball

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The slaying of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi, in 1964 was a notorious event documented in Howard Ball's 2004 book Murder in Mississippi. Now Ball revisits that grisly crime to tell how, four decades later, justice finally came to Philadelphia.

Originally tried in 1967, Baptist minister and Klansman Edgar Ray Killen was set free because one juror couldn't bring herself to convict a preacher. Now Ball tells how progressive-minded...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0700614613

ISBN13:9780700614615

Release Date:September 2006

Publisher:University Press of Kansas

Length:270 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 8.3"

Related Subjects

20th Century Civil Rights Constitutional Law History Law Legal History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Murder & Mayhem State & Local Textbooks

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