DEVIL'S SANCTUARY; AN EYEWITNESS HISTORY OF MISSISSIPPI HATE CRIMES.
Alston, Alex A., Jr. and James L. Dickerson.
Language: English
Published by Chicago, IL: Lawrence Hill Books, 2009., 2009
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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First edition, first printing (per publisher's statement for former and number line for latter upon copyright page). xii, 369 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.75cm. Dust jacket lightly rubbed. Black cloth spine with metallic blue stamped lettering; black boards. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding retains some crispness. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. With Chronology, section of b/w plates on four unpaged leaves, Acknowledgements, Notes, Select Bibliography, and Index. Features eighteen chapters among four parts all titled as follows: PART I: IN THE BEGINNING: "The Rose and the Thorn," "Emmett Till: A Prelude to Terror," "Mississippi Crosses the Line," "The Lynching That Shocked the World," "The Loose Ends of Government," "Hoddy Toddy: The Integration of Ole Miss," "The Assassination of Medgar Evers," "Philadelphia Burning," "Charles Moore and Henry Dee," PART II: COMPLETE BREAKDOWN: "Mississippi's Legal Jungle," "Mississippi Gestapo," "Praise the Lord, but Don't Seat the Blacks," "All the News That's Fit to Print - for White Mississippians," "Inside the FBI: The Truth about Mississippi," PART III: JUSTICE DELAYED: "Byron De La Beckwith: Ordeal by Trial and Error," "Philadelphia Redux: Edgar Ray Killen Raised from the Dead," "James Ford Seale: Time Runs Out for a Killer," PART IV: PICKING UP THE PIECES: "Atonement in a Haunted Land." ISBN 9781556527630.…
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- Title
- DEVIL'S SANCTUARY; AN EYEWITNESS HISTORY OF MISSISSIPPI HATE CRIMES.
- Author
- Alston, Alex A., Jr. and James L. Dickerson.
- Publisher
- Chicago, IL: Lawrence Hill Books, 2009.
- Publication year
- 2009
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1556527632
- ISBN 13
- 9781556527630
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Americana-Mississippi
Lynchings, beatings, arson, denial of rights, false imprisonment--the civil rights era brought attention to these heinous offenses that were the status quo for African Americans in many areas of the country. And no state was more notorious as a sanctuary for the murderers and perpetrators of hate crimes than Mississippi. In 1956 state lawmakers installed the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission to preserve segregation and “Mississippi Values” by declaring the state outside the jurisdiction of the federal government. Under the auspices of the governor and lieutenant governor, the commission joined forces with groups such as the White Citizens’ Councils, which would stop at nothing in their quest for white supremacy.
In Devil’s Sanctuary, Alex A. Alston Jr. and James L. Dickerson, both of whom grew up in small-town Mississippi, recount the state’s shameful racist history and explore how Mississippi was able to get away with its role as a safe haven for the most virulent and violent racists, allowing them immunity from prosecution. The breakdown of institutions, with everyone from judges and elected officials to clergy and the media looking the other way, not only permitted but even encouraged acts so horrendous that many citizens cannot believe they happened--and still could happen--in the United States.
Analysis of the major crimes, the institutional collusion, delayed and never-delivered justice, and the state’s attempts at atonement is interspersed with the authors’ accounts of what they saw, heard, and experienced as whites--thus “insiders”--from that troubled time to the present day. Devil’s Sanctuary is part shocking history and part moving memoir, an eyewitness account of judicial, media, and economic terrorism directed against African Americans.
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About the Author
Alex A. Alston Jr. is a past president of the Mississippi Bar Association who has taught and written extensively on issues of trial advocacy.
James L. Dickerson is a journalist, a social worker, and the author of Goin’ Back to Memphis and That’s Alright, Elvis.
They both live in Jackson, Mississippi.
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