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Byron de la Beckwith's conviction for the murder of Medgar Evers made front-page news in papers across the country - thirty years after his original trial for the crime.
Now, in Of Long Memory, Adam Nossiter recounts the fatally intertwined stories of the courageous civil-rights crusader Medgar Evers, field secretary of the Mississippi NAACP in Jackson at the time of his death in 1963, and Beckwith, the fanatical racist convicted as his killer. It is the story of how that once-outcast American state, Mississippi, has painfully confronted its past and how this process cleared the way for the revival of the case against Beckwith.
The first of the decade's political assassinations, the Evers murder initiated the nation into what was to become a distressingly familiar scenario; the tearful widow, the anguished funeral procession, the hero's burial (in Evers's case, at Arlington National Cemetery), the riots, and the hints of self-questioning from a society apparently given over to violence.
Nossiter's stunning, unforgettable view of Mississippi then and now, black and white, sheds a glaring new light on the largest issue of our time: race.
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Politics and government, Race relations, Assassination, African Americans, Evers, medgar wiley, 1925-1963, Mississippi, politics and government, Mississippi, history, African americans, mississippi, Murder, mississippi, Trials, litigation, Trials (Assassination)Places
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Of Long Memory: Mississippi and the Murder of Medgar Evers
2009, Hachette Books
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0786748486 9780786748488
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Of Long Memory: Mississippi and the Murder of Medgar Evers
June 18, 2002, Da Capo, Da Capo Press
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0306811626 9780306811623
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Of Long Memory: Mississippi and the Murder of Medgar Evers
May 1995, Addison Wesley Publishing Company
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0201483394 9780201483390
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Of long memory: Mississippi and the murder of Medgar Evers
1994, Addison-Wesley
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0201608448 9780201608441
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"A light drizzle fell over Jackson, Mississippi, the day in December 1990 when the papers announced that Byron de la Beckwith had been indicted again for murdering Medgar Evers."
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