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100 1 $aNossiter, Adam.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94001278
245 10 $aOf long memory :$bMississippi and the murder of Medgar Evers /$cAdam Nossiter.
260 $aReading, Mass. :$bAddison-Wesley,$c[1994], ©1994.
300 $a303 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 277-285) and index.
520 $aByron 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.
520 8 $aNow, 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.
520 8 $aThe 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.
520 8 $aNossiter'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.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$zMississippi$xPolitics and government.
651 0 $aMississippi$xRace relations.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115909
600 10 $aEvers, Medgar Wiley,$d1925-1963$xAssassination.
600 10 $aBeckwith, Byron de la.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93021587
651 0 $aMississippi$xPolitics and government$y1951-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85086200
852 00 $boff,glx$hF350.N4$iN67 1994