The Past Is Never Dead: The Trial of James Ford Seale and Mississippi's Struggle for Redemption
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The Past Is Never Dead: The Trial of James Ford Seale and Mississippi's Struggle for Redemption

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On May 2, 1964, Klansman James Ford Seale picked up two black hitchhikers and drowned both young men in the Mississippi River. Seale spent more than forty years a free man, before finally facing trial in 2007. There could have been two defendants in the resulting case: James Ford Seale for kidnapping and murder, and the State of Mississippi for complicitys narrative is at ...more
Hardcover, 290 pages
Published September 22nd 2009 by Basic Books (first published September 1st 2009)
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Jessica
Jessica rated it 2 of 5 stars
Shelves: 2009, non-fiction
While this was an interesting book, the author jumped around too much between the trial of James Ford Seale, the early history of Mississippi, other Civil Rights trials of the 60's, and current culture. I understand that he was trying to paint a backdrop to give the trial perspective, but it became distracting trying to keep the various names and eras straight. The story wasn't as gripping as I thought it was going to be but I did learn a lot about the difficulties of prosecuting a crime that is...more
Valena
Valena rated it 2 of 5 stars
Eh. I finished it only because I wanted to know what happened in the case (and it's a fast read). The cocky voice irritated me, especially when the author made apparent how little he knew. He tries to grab the reader initially with arguments about race, but even his word usage is off-putting. It is, however, a book worth being written.
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