Death in the Delta : Uncovering a Mississippi Family Secret /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Walling, Molly
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Walling, Molly.
Fields, Harris Jesse, > 1922-2000
Walling, Molly > Family.
Fields, Harris Jesse, > 1922-2000.
Race relations.
Manslaughter.
Gunfights.
Family secrets.
Families.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Personal Memoirs.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Family secrets > Mississippi > Anguilla > Case studies.
Manslaughter > Mississippi > Anguilla > History > 20th century.
Gunfights > Mississippi > Anguilla > History > 20th century.
Mississippi > Anguilla.
Anguilla (Miss.) > Race relations.
History.
Case studies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 nee.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (240 pages).
ISBN:9781621036159

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