Blood Justice: The Lynching of Mack Charles Parker

by Howard Smead

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

a tough but good read

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 !

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.

This book accomplishes everything it sets out to do.

Interesting read

I read this for a History class and I found it interesting. Nuff said.