Murder in Mississippi: United States v. Price and the Struggle for Civil Rights

by Howard Ball

Book Overview

Few episodes in the modern civil rights movement were more galvanizing or more memorialized than the brutal murders of Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney--idealists eager to protect and promote the rights of black Americans, even in the deep and very dangerous South. In films like Mississippi Burning and popular folk songs, these young men have been venerated as martyrs. Even so, the landmark legal dimensions of their murder...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700613161
• ISBN13: 9780700613168
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 171 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.6"