That blood, she believed, was on the hands of every police officer there and every police officer in Jackson. It was smeared all over Mayor Allen Thompson, who would soon express “shock” on behalf his bloodstained city. Medgar’s blood rained like a monsoon over Gov. Ross Barnett and Ole Miss and over the White Citizens’ Council and the Klan and the Sovereign Commission. Medgar’s blood stained every segregated part of Mississippi.
