Œuvres de Seth Cagin
We Are Not Afraid: The Story of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney, and the Civil Rights Campaign for Mississippi (1988) 79 exemplaires
BETWEEN EARTH AND SKY: How CFCs Changed Our World and Endangered the Ozone Layer (1992) 10 exemplaires
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It was Freedom Summer. The summer when many college aged kids decided to take part in registering the southern negro to vote. This infuriated white southerners.
Many southerners turned to crime to help solve their problems concerning the negro vote. The Mississippi White Knights of the Klu Klux Klan took action and decided to murder the men who would "invade" their territory which was central Mississippi.
After Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner inspected the ruins, they attempted to return to Meridian, Mississippi--the headquarters for their efforts. The KKK intercepted them, jailed them in the local county lockup, and later released them to fend for their lives. This they failed to do when Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price caught the three men right before they crossed the Neshoba County line into Newton County.
Price along with several other KKK members took them deeper into Neshoba County and killed them by firearms. They took the bodies to an earthen dam and swore they would never tell a living soul. However, in 44 days the 3 men's bodies were found by the FBI in a massive search that was well covered by the media.
In December of 1964, the FBI rounded up Price and several Mississippian men, including James Jordan and Alton Wayne Roberts, whom were thought to have participated in the trio's murder. This eventually led to a trial that sent some members of the lynch mob to prison, not for murder but for violation of the trio's civil rights.
We Are Not Afraid is the definitive account of these murders.… (plus d'informations)