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Description

1. 184 pages : illustrations, maps; 21 cm

Summary

1. In the civil rights movement, 1964 was the year of Freedom Summer. On June 21, Mississippi, one of the last bastions of segregation in America and a bloody battleground in the fight for civil rights, reached the low point in its history. On that steamy night, three young activists were abducted and murdered in Neshoba County near the small town of Philadelphia. Their names were James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner. Two were from the North and labeled locally as "outside agitators." Chaney was a Mississippi black. The murders not only shook the nation and shamed the state of Mississippi but also forced loose the iron grip of white supremacy in the South.
2. William Bradford Huie was sent to this seething community by the New York Herald Tribune to cover the breaking story. Probing for answers and conducting interviews, he wrote this documentary account in the heat of the dangerous and dramatic moment, not in the safe zone of retrospection. This is not a political or sociological study, a collection of articles or a diary, but a journalist's fact-filled story of people that fate brought together in a tragic confrontation. Huie tells the history of each young man and studies the personalities of the killers. He reveals not only the harrowing events in this heinous case but also the prejudice of ordinary citizens who allowed murder to serve as their defense of prejudice. He helps us know the young martyrs closely and introduces us to their killers and to the hatred and suspicion that led inexorably to murder. This edition includes Huie's report on the trial three years later. Nineteen local men were charged. Seven were found guilty of conspiracy but none of murder.

Subject

1. Goodman, Andrew, 1943-1964
2. Chaney, James Earl, 1943-1964
3. Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939-1964
4. Chaney, James E
5. Goodman, Andrew
6. Schwerner, Michael Henry
7. 1900-1999
8. Geschichte 1964
9. Murder > Mississippi > Neshoba County > History > 20th century
10. Civil rights workers > Crimes against > History > Mississippi > Neshoba County > 20th century
11. Civil rights workers > Mississippi > Neshoba County > Biography
12. Civil rights workers
13. Civil rights workers > Crimes against
14. Murder
15. Race relations
16. Bürgerrechtsbewegung
17. Mord
18. Civil Rights Movement
19. Rassendiscriminatie
20. Moorden
21. Strafprocessen
22. Murder > Mississippi
23. Civil rights workers > Crimes against > Mississippi > Neshoba Country
24. Civil rights workers > United States
25. Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century
26. Neshoba County (Miss.) > Race relations
27. Mississippi > Neshoba County
28. Staat Mississippi
29. Schwärze

Genre/Form

1. collective biographies.
2. Biographies.
3. History.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. Originally published: New York : WWC Books, 1965.
2. Includes index.