Blood Justice The Lynching of Mack Charles Parker

Name: Blood Justice The Lynching of Mack Charles Parker
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ISBN: 9780195054293

ISBN-10: 0195054296

ISBN-13: 9780195054293

Edition: 1988

Authors: Howard Smead

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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 Parker--recently charged with the rape of a white woman--from his jail cell, beat him, carried him across state lines, finally shot him, and left his body in the Pearl River. A massive FBI investigation ensued, and two grand juries met to…

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List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/14/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 7.95" wide x 5.39" long x 0.52" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Introduction



""""Just Joe-Jacking Around""""



Some Proud Southern Whites



A Quiet Friday Evening



The Morning After the Night Before



A Small Town in Mississippi



""""The Floodgates of Hate and Hell""""



""""Don't Let Them Kill Me""""



The Fbi in Peace and War in Mississippi



Bad News from Bilboville



No Apologies



The Triumph of Southem Justice


Epilogue



Conclusions of the Justice Department About Violations of Federal Law by Lynch Mobs (contained in Letter from Malcolm R. Wilkey to William Rogers, May 25, 1959)



Judge Sebe Dale's Charge to the Pearl River County Grand Jury (poplarville Democrat, Nov. 5, 1959) Nov. 5, 1959, Judge Sebe Dale Delivers Strong Charge to Grand Jury Without Mentioning Specific Cases


Notes


Bibliography


Index