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The brutal murder that spurred Americans' interest in justice and civil rights is recreated in the first complete in-depth account of the life and death of civil rights martyrs Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner. 8-page photo insert.
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Critique du Publishers Weekly
The infamous murder of three civil rights workers by a Ku Klux Klan mob and Mississippi law-enforcement officers in 1964 takes on the dimensions of a personal, political and national tragedy in this riveting account. The drama of the triocollege students Michael Schwerner and Andy Goodman, both white Northerners, and James Chaney, a young black activist from Mississippipits their faith in nonviolence against a murderous rage fueled by racism. Cagin and Dray, who coauthored Hollywood Films of the Seventies, have done their homework: interviews, news reports, FBI documents and trial transcripts undergird their brilliant re-creation of the incident, interwoven with a full-scale history of the civil rights movement. The search for the bodies turned up many black corpses, purported victims of police/Klan violence; the Klan conspirators were paroled before serving their full sentences; in the aftermath, Lyndon Johnson questionably maneuvered to defuse the situation. This is surely one of the best books on the civil rights movement. (April) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Critique de Kirkus
An in-depth account of the events leading up to the 1964 murders of three civil-rights activists, from two authors who have collaborated previously (on Hollywood Films of the Seventies, 1984). The three activists, whose deaths were memorialized in a famous Tom Paxton song (""Goodman, Schwerner. and Chaney""), were shot on the night of June 21, 1964, off a lonely dirt road in Philadelphia, Miss., by a consortium of Klan conspirators who wished to give a foul kickoff to the official start the next day of the Mississippi Project, a summer civil-rights program. Cagin and Dray have had access to the FBI's extensive summary of its own investigation into the abduction and murder of the trio, and manage to capture all of the ugly venom displayed by Southern rednecks toward these do-gooders from the North. Offering a dramatic, hour-by-hour chronicle of the events, the authors point out the irony of the FBI's relying, at least at first, on the very local law-enforcement officials involved in the crime and subsequent cover-up. Punctuating the narrative are the Johnson Administration's attempts to bring race relations in the South into the 20th century, and portraits of the students of the sum her project that ""marked a fruitful communion of two cultures, young black radicals and young white liberals, yielding perhaps the definitive cross-fertilization of the 1960's."" The epilogue, which follows up on some of the conspirators who, after serving short prison sentences, now go free to work in auto-sales lots and shopping malls, is chilling in its matter-of-factness. A gruesome story told with skill and passion: solid historical journalism. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Critique de Choice
With the passing of a quarter of a century, memory of the Freedom Summer of 1964 is increasingly hazy. To refresh memories and contribute to the understanding of that time, Cagin and Dray have interviewed principal figures, mined court records and newspapers, read widely in the growing secondary literature, and produced a compelling account of the Neshoba County, Mississippi, murders of J.E. Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andy Goodman. The story benefits from glimpses at the larger picture of the Civil Rights Movement, but the book is not a survey. Rather, the discussion of Freedom Rides, sit-ins, and national politics sets the stage for the civil rights nightmare that was Mississippi in 1964. The picture that emerges is not comforting. Southern law enforcement officers are shown in a way that confirms the stereotype; descriptions of sleepy southern towns abound; the anti-Klan bias of the authors is evident. Evident, too, is an understanding of rivalry between whites and blacks and between civil rights organizations such as SCLC, SNCC, CORE, and the NAACP. If this book is flawed in any way, it is through the authors' emphasis on chronicle and drama over historical analysis. But this is not a major failing; it leaves room for other much needed monographs that are still to be written. College, university, and public libraries. -T. F. Armstrong, Georgia College
Critique du Library Journal
A richly detailed morality tale set against the backdrop of the Civil Rights movement of the early 1960s, this account pits idealistic and courageous civil rights workers against violent and bigoted defenders of segregation. As the central tragedythe murders of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaneyunfolds, federal officials ultimately bring the perpetrators to justice. In spite of its obvious bias and a tendency toward melodrama, this is a fine work by two freelance journalists: the most exhaustively researched, eloquently written, and accessible account of this crucial episode. Exciting and inspiring; highly recommended for most libraries.Anthony O. Edmonds, Ball State Univ., Muncie, Ind. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.