An account of the civil rights march that ended in the unlawful incarceration of African American protestorsāand the basis for the 2017 documentary.
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In October 1965, nearly 800 young people attempted to march from their churches in Natchez to protest segregation, discrimination and mistreatment by white leaders and elements of the Ku Klux Klan. As they exited the churches, local authorities forced the would-be marchers onto buses and charged them with "parading without a permit," a local ordinance later ruled unconstitutional. For approximately 150 of these young men and women, this was only the beginning. They were taken to the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, where prison authorities subjected them to days of abuse, humiliation and punishment under horrific conditions. Most were African Americans in their teens and early twenties. Authors G. Mark LaFrancis, Robert Morgan and Darrell White reveal the injustice of this overlooked dramatic episode in civil rights history.
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"White and Galen Mark LaFrancis are in the process of filming a documentary to shed light on the Parchman Ordeal, which, along with other Natchez storiesālike the 1967 Ku Klux Klan slaying of Wharlest Jacksonāhas flown below the nation's radar."ā
The Root
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"Could help shed more light on the incident and its place in the nation's civil rights history."ā
The Natchez Democrat
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The Parchman Ordeal
1965 Natchez Civil Rights Injustice
- 129 pages
- English
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eBook - ePub
The Parchman Ordeal
1965 Natchez Civil Rights Injustice
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword, by James Meredith
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Origins of Oppression
- 2. Call to Arms
- 3. We Rise Up
- 4. Beat Down Again
- 5. Striking the Match of Activism
- 6. Fed Up
- 7. George MetcalfeCut
- 8. The Arrest
- 9. Dark Ride into Terror
- 10. The Parchman Ordeal
- 11. Free at Last
- 12. Reconciliation and Recognition
- Authorsā Reflections
- Bibiliography
- About the Authors
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