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"A riveting account of Medgar Evers' murder and the thirty-year crusade to bring his killer to justice." -- People magazine
The civil rights movement was just catching fire in Mississippi on the night in 1963 when white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith crouched in the honeysuckle across the street from NAACP leader Medgar Evers's house and shot him in the back. Three trials and thirty years later, a jury convicted Beckwith of murder and sent him to prison for life. Drawing on rare access to the prosecutors, the Evers family, and Beckwith himself, Vollers recreates the events of Evers's life and death, weaving together
"A riveting account of Medgar Evers' murder and the thirty-year crusade to bring his killer to justice." -- People magazine
The civil rights movement was just catching fire in Mississippi on the night in 1963 when white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith crouched in the honeysuckle across the street from NAACP leader Medgar Evers's house and shot him in the back. Three trials and thirty years later, a jury convicted Beckwith of murder and sent him to prison for life. Drawing on rare access to the prosecutors, the Evers family, and Beckwith himself, Vollers recreates the events of Evers's life and death, weaving together a thrilling tale of racism, murder, courage, redemption, and the ultimate triumph of justice. In a new epilogue written on the fiftieth anniversary of Evers's assassination, Maryanne Vollers updates the main characters and examines new efforts to bring unpunished killers to trial.
Ghosts of Mississippi was a finalist for the National Book Award for non-fiction, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism.
"Vivid...haunting...By isolating a small piece of the civil rights movement, Vollers has made the entire story more accessible and compelling." -- San Francisco Chronicle
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Release date: 11 March 2018
ISBN-10 : B07BDR951K |
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