meridian

Examines the Klu Klux Klan's war against Southern Jews in the author's home state of Mississippi.

Chronicles the 1964 trial of a group of Mississippi Ku Klux Klan members for killing James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, civil rights activists who had come to the state to investigate the burning of a church, and presents numerous primary source excerpts and photos.

Examines the trials of the men accused of murdering three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964, including the Supreme Court decision to try the defendants in a federal rather than a state court and the final verdicts which marked the first time, in Mississippi, that a jury convicted white men for killing African Americans or civil rights workers.