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- catalog abstract "Byron de la Beckwith's conviction for the murder of Medgar Evers made front-page news in papers across the country - thirty years after his original trial for the crime. Now, in Of Long Memory, Adam Nossiter recounts the fatally intertwined stories of the courageous civil-rights crusader Medgar Evers, field secretary of the Mississippi NAACP in Jackson at the time of his death in 1963, and Beckwith, the fanatical racist convicted as his killer. It is the story of how that once-outcast American state, Mississippi, has painfully confronted its past and how this process cleared the way for the revival of the case against Beckwith. The first of the decade's political assassinations, the Evers murder initiated the nation into what was to become a distressingly familiar scenario; the tearful widow, the anguished funeral procession, the hero's burial (in Evers's case, at Arlington National Cemetery), the riots, and the hints of self-questioning from a society apparently given over to violence. Nossiter's stunning, unforgettable view of Mississippi then and now, black and white, sheds a glaring new light on the largest issue of our time: race.".
- catalog contributor b5670375.
- catalog coverage "Mississippi Politics and government 1951-".
- catalog coverage "Mississippi Race relations.".
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description "Byron de la Beckwith's conviction for the murder of Medgar Evers made front-page news in papers across the country - thirty years after his original trial for the crime.".
- catalog description "Confronting history in Mississippi -- Medgar Evers -- The white supremacist state -- Byron de la Beckwith -- Bill Waller -- Charles Evers -- Bobby DeLaughter -- Downfall of the old order and reawakening of memory -- The past disinterred -- Beckwith in Jackson.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-285) and index.".
- catalog description "Nossiter's stunning, unforgettable view of Mississippi then and now, black and white, sheds a glaring new light on the largest issue of our time: race.".
- catalog description "Now, in Of Long Memory, Adam Nossiter recounts the fatally intertwined stories of the courageous civil-rights crusader Medgar Evers, field secretary of the Mississippi NAACP in Jackson at the time of his death in 1963, and Beckwith, the fanatical racist convicted as his killer. It is the story of how that once-outcast American state, Mississippi, has painfully confronted its past and how this process cleared the way for the revival of the case against Beckwith.".
- catalog description "The first of the decade's political assassinations, the Evers murder initiated the nation into what was to become a distressingly familiar scenario; the tearful widow, the anguished funeral procession, the hero's burial (in Evers's case, at Arlington National Cemetery), the riots, and the hints of self-questioning from a society apparently given over to violence.".
- catalog extent "303 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Of long memory.".
- catalog identifier "0201608448 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Of long memory.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley,".
- catalog relation "Of long memory.".
- catalog spatial "Mississippi Politics and government 1951-".
- catalog spatial "Mississippi Race relations.".
- catalog spatial "Mississippi".
- catalog subject "323.1/1960730762 20".
- catalog subject "African Americans Mississippi Politics and government.".
- catalog subject "Beckwith, Byron de La.".
- catalog subject "Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963 Assassination.".
- catalog subject "F350.N4 N67 1994".
- catalog tableOfContents "Confronting history in Mississippi -- Medgar Evers -- The white supremacist state -- Byron de la Beckwith -- Bill Waller -- Charles Evers -- Bobby DeLaughter -- Downfall of the old order and reawakening of memory -- The past disinterred -- Beckwith in Jackson.".
- catalog title "Of long memory : Mississippi and the murder of Medgar Evers / Adam Nossiter.".
- catalog type "text".