Between remembrance and repair : commemorating racial violence in Philadelphia, Mississippi /

Few places are more notorious for civil rights-era violence than Philadelphia, Mississippi, the site of the 1964 "Mississippi Burning" murders. Yet in a striking turn of events, Philadelphia has become a beacon in Mississippi's racial reckoning in the decades since. Claire Whitlinger...

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Main Author: Whitlinger, Claire (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
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505 0 |a A Philadelphia (Mississippi) story: remembering in black and white -- From countermemory to collective memory -- Prosecuting Edgar Ray Killen -- Legislating civil and human rights education -- Commissioning truth and reconciliation -- The transformative capacity of commemorating racial violence: comparing the 1989 and 2004 commemorations -- Commemorating racial violence as intergroup contact -- Commemoration is a constant struggle -- Fifty years forward. 
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