Bibliograph

The Parchman ordeal, 1965 Natchez civil rights injustice

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The Parchman ordeal, 1965 Natchez civil rights injustice

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Parchman ordeal

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Sub title

1965 Natchez civil rights injustice

Summary

An account of the civil rights march that ended in the unlawful incarceration of African American protestors-and the basis for the 2017 documentary. 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

Target audience

adult

Classification