A Death in the Delta
Title | A Death in the Delta PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen J. Whitfield |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Total Pages | 214 |
Release | 1991-11 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780801843266 |
Here is the full, shocking story of the lynching that exposed the true brutality of the nation's tradition of racism to a confident prosperous post-World War II America and helped ignite the 1960s civil rights movement.
Death of a Delta
Title | Death of a Delta PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 38 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Peace River (B.C. and Alta.) |
ISBN |
Death in the Delta
Title | Death in the Delta PDF eBook |
Author | Molly Walling |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | 234 |
Release | 2012-08-11 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1617036099 |
Growing up, Molly Walling could not fathom the source of the dark and intense discomfort in her family home. Then in 2006 she discovered her father's complicity in the murder of two black men on December 12, 1946, in Anguilla, deep in the Mississippi Delta. Death in the Delta tells the story of one woman's search for the truth behind a closely held, sixty-year old family secret. Though the author's mother and father decided that they would protect their three children from that past, its effect was profound. When the story of a fatal shoot-out surfaced, apprehension turned into a devouring need to know. Each of Walling's trips from North Carolina to the Delta brought unsettling and unexpected clues. After a hearing before an all-white grand jury, her father's case was not prosecuted. Indeed, it appeared as if the incident never occurred, and he resumed his life as a small-town newspaper editor. Yet family members of one of the victims tell her their stories. A ninety-three-year-old black historian and witness gives context and advice. A county attorney suggests her family's history of commingling with black women was at the heart of the deadly confrontation. Firsthand the author recognizes how privilege, entitlement, and racial bias in a wealthy, landed southern family resulted in a deadly abuse of power followed by a stifling, decades-long cover up. Death in the Delta is a deeply personal account of a quest to confront a terrible legacy. Against the advice and warnings of family, Walling exposes her father's guilty agency in the deaths of Simon Toombs and David Jones. She also exposes his gift as a writer and creative thinker. The author, grappling with wrenching issues of family and honor, was long conflicted about making this story public. But her mission became one of hope that confronting the truth might somehow move others toward healing and reconciliation.
Life and Death in the Delta
Title | Life and Death in the Delta PDF eBook |
Author | K. Rogers |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 214 |
Release | 2006-02-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1403982953 |
Terrorism, black poverty, and economic exploitation produced a condition of collective trauma and social suffering for thousands of black Deltans in the Twentieth Century. Based on oral histories with African American activists and community leaders, this work reveals the impact of that oppression.
Some Deaths in the Delta, and Other Poems
Title | Some Deaths in the Delta, and Other Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Rosellen Brown |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 84 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN |
Life and Death in the Delta
Title | Life and Death in the Delta PDF eBook |
Author | K. Rogers |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | 214 |
Release | 2006-02-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781403960368 |
Terrorism, black poverty, and economic exploitation produced a condition of collective trauma and social suffering for thousands of black Deltans in the Twentieth Century. Based on oral histories with African American activists and community leaders, this work reveals the impact of that oppression.
Dead on the Delta
Title | Dead on the Delta PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781448792740 |