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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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.