Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy - Hardcover

Hendrickson, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375404619 ISBN 13: 9780375404610

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2003

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Book by Hendrickson Paul

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A study of the dark legacy of racial intolerance and prejudice profiles the lives and fortunes of seven white Mississippi sheriffs, immortalized in a haunting 1962 LIFE magazine photograph, who took part in the violence that resulted from James Meredith's attempt to integrate the University of Mississippi, and it influence on their own lives and the lives of their children and grandchildren. 50,000 first printing.

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f Mississippi recounts the story of seven white Mississippi lawmen depicted in a horrifically telling 1962 Life magazine photograph—and of the racial intolerance that is their legacy.

In that photograph, which appears on the front of this jacket, the lawmen (six sheriffs and a deputy sheriff) admire a billy club with obvious pleasure, preparing for the unrest they anticipate—and to which they clearly intend to contribute—in the wake of James Meredith’s planned attempt to integrate the University of Mississippi. In finding the stories of these men, Paul Hendrickson gives us an extraordinarily revealing picture of racism in America at that moment. But his ultimate focus is on the part this legacy has played in the lives of their children and grandchildren.

One of them is a grandson—a high school dropout and many times married—who achieves an elegant poignancy in his struggle against the racism to which he sometimes succumbs. One so

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0375404619
• ISBN 13: 9780375404610
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 343