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Originally published in 1907.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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Publisher: Edinburgh E. SaundersSubjects: Law, John, 1671-1729Capitalists and financiers -- FranceNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1898Original Publisher: Public-school publishing companySubjects: PioneersMississippi River ValleyBiography ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Mississippi Business Journal, published by Venture Publications on August 19, 2002. The length of the article is 864 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: State's securities laws an issue in WorldCom investigation.(Secretary of State Eric Clark's office uses the Internet to cut costs)(Brief Article)
Author: Kelly Ingebretsen
Publication: Mississippi Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 19, 2002
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Volume: 24Issue: 33Page: 2(1)

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This digital document is an article from Mississippi Business Journal, published by Venture Publications on May 27, 2002. The length of the article is 933 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Rapid response first step in closure assistance.(Brief Article)
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Examines the trials of the men accused of murdering three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964, including the Supreme Court decision to try to 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. ... Read more

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This book gives a True and Easy Understanding of the case!!
I had to do a Research Accuracy paper for my College English class, between "Mississippi Burning" the movie and the actual events of the case.Well, because of this books layout and detail it allowed me to have a true understanding of the actual events.I scored an A on my paper because it was an awesome book. Harvey Fireside you did a great job. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Mississippi Business Journal, published by Thomson Gale on March 19, 2007. The length of the article is 937 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Engineers, builders support statewide building codes.
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This digital document is an article from Mississippi Business Journal, published by Venture Publications on August 9, 2004. The length of the article is 1393 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Look back at the Legislature: needed legislation passed.
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Modern Misunderstanding...The Past is Never Dead...
I found it rather naive that one of the national reviewers called the Modern South "misunderstood". Not even the killers nor those who supported them have ever reflected themselves as 'misunderstood'.Many did not care what the rest of America, or the world, for that matter perceived Mississipi or other socially under-developed sections of the South were perceived then and now. Even in the thick of the obvious and open continual season of "denied" genocide and present obvious miscarriges of the modern manipulations of Southern Justice. There are no apologies indicated nor will there ever be. Even the author imagines no pretenses of the South or the unfolding of an over 40 year old case, thus the title, "The Past is Never Dead". A signifcant aspect of the South really doesn't care to completely washing its hands from the past or current misdeeds. This is true of what is seen and read all over in our media today. The justice of the South really hasn't made that many proactive strides (perhaps public broad strokes to quell the balanced half)when you truly research the predominance of those who are imprisoned across the board. The sleek and manipulative use of "forensics" in the system today is as effective as the magic bullet theory. People will see what they wish to see forever, particularly, if they are not the segment who are on the receiving end of their direct opposites.All that has changed is in the appearance of oppressiveness portrayed and polished to indicate and justify such sociopathic fears that originated and were rooted from the very start. This true story merely unfolds such events in this isolated , yet, patternistic incident. McLean's research and ability to arrange the time line of events and the statements are meticulously crafted to bring you right back to a medieval style of "justice" and how it is not so different today, except, in the packaging of which,again, innocently accepted as "misunderstanding and change".A fine read always from this author who not only is gifted at telling the facts, but also is well rounded in his delivery as a literary rarity of our times. Worth the investment based on the more positve reviews listed by the Amazon customers. Weigh your decision upon all of the reviews and make your decision here. If you read , "In Broad Daylight" by McLean, then, your experience will not disappoint the second time around.

Eye opening
I'm too young to remember much of the civil rights era but I've met several people recently who were very actively involved.Hearing their stories made me interested in other stories that were out there which led me to pick up this title at the library on of the blue.I had heard the story of Emmett Till but had never heard of Henry Dee or Charles Moore.

I thought the descriptions of why people did and did not want to be on the jury were incredibly interesting.Very eye opening look at how people, especially older people, view race.I will not go into detail but page 231 just sums it all up.So many of us have grown up unaware of the past that we have a hard time relating to those feelings.When I first picked up the book I thought it was going to be dealing with the 60's and 70's.I was really surprised to learn that so much took place in 2007.I don't remember hearing about this trial at all.

Overall, a very interesting book.I could have done without that last 20 or so pages but overall it's definately worth the reading time.I think it does a great job of linking the past to the present.

The Past is Never Dead
Shipping and delivery was prompt and in excellent condition.Book deviates from the titled subject, James Ford Seale and was more descriptive of the entire Mississippi tragedies

Forget "Mississippi Burning"
The past isn't always about honor and glory - often it's about shame and violence. It's hard to read about the awful things that happened in the "south" in the 60's during the civil rights conflict but since this is a vital part of our countries history we need to remember those troubled times. A time when the Ku klux klan fought civil rights by intimidations, beatings, burnings and grizzly murders."The Past Is Never Dead" is an important book especially since the "Past" isn't dead and Mississippi seems to be taking most of the blame for the violence. Take another look at Mississippi as it seeks redemption.Read MacLean's book as he covers the James Ford Seale Trial and his look into what Mississippians are doing to redeem themselves and their State from old stereotypes.
Sit in on the drama of the trial ofMr. Seale for the burtal murders of Charles Moore and Henry Dee some 43 years after the fact. Jury selection begins May 4, 2007 both jury selection and the main act of the trial are fascinating. During breaks in the trial as well as before and after the main action you will want to follow MacLeans as he visits surrounding areas talking to blacks and whites to see what they think about the recent and current push to gain justice for the Murders of the 60's. The blacks and whites are talking to each trying to figure out a way to live together as the go down the "redeption road".Many know the Past won't just die. Readers will be interest to see what these people are doing to gain respect from the rest of the country.
Readers of "The Help" a current best selling novel need to read this non fiction work which will add to their understanding of the violence of the 60's.

A Facinating Look at Mississippi's Past and Present
The Past is Never Dead is not just a true crime novel. It's a well-told story about the Seale trial, but the real story for me was how the people of the state are attempting to move beyond their bloody past. I was particularly interested in the story of how the town of Sumner orgainzed the Emmett Till Commission. Black and white members of the commission learned to work together for a common end - to raise funds to preserve the courthouse where the Till murder trial had taken place and to formally express their regret to Till's family. MacLean also wrote about the attitudes of ordinary citizens - both black and white - and their takes on the state's past and what they are concerned with today. Altogether, a facinating look at a state I knew virtually nothing about except for its stereotypes, and one I will not regard in the same way again. Definitely worth reading! ... Read more

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Subtitle: With an Attempt at the Translation of Their Legends and Inscriptions (with Notes), and a Brief Sketch of the System and Its OriginatorPublisher: Priv. print.Publication date: 1907Subjects: NumismaticsMedalsAntiques ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Few episodes in the modern civil rights movement were more galvanizing or more memorialized than the brutal murders of Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney--idealists eager to protect and promote the rights of black Americans, even in the deep and very dangerous South. In films like Mississippi Burning and popular folk songs, these young men have been venerated as martyrs. Even so, the landmark legal dimensions of their murder case have until now remained largely lost.

Howard Ball reminds us just how problematic the prosecution of the murderers--all members of the KKK--actually was. When the State of Mississippi failed to indict them, the U.S. tried to prosecute the case in federal district court. The judge there, however, ruled that the federal government had no jurisdiction and so dismissed the case. When the U.S. appealed, the Supreme Court unanimously overturned the lower court decision, claiming that federal authorities did indeed have the power to police civil rights violations in any state. United States v. Price (1967) thus produced a landmark decision that signaled a seismic shift in American legal history and race relations, for it meant that local authorities could no longer shield racist lawbreakers.

Ball weaves the tales of victims and perpetrators into a single compelling story in which the legal process becomes as much personal as political. Readers will learn how deputy sheriff Cecil Price and his accomplices planned the execution of the young freedom riders and how prosecutors and judges brought them to justice under conspiracy charges. Along the way, Ball introduces readers to a host of characters from the heyday of the civil rights era--with the NAACP, CORE, and SNCC on one side, and the KKK and its fellow travelers on the other, and politicians sitting squarely on the fence.

Although to this day the murderers have never faced murder charges, United States v. Price emphatically declared that the federal government would no longer tolerate the complicity of local and state authorities in the suppression of the constitutional rights of southern blacks. As we approach the fortieth anniversary of the murders in June 2004, Murder in Mississippi provides a timely and telling reminder of the vigilance democracy requires if its ideals are to be fully realized.

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A Quick Read, But Worth Your Time
Author Howard Ball provides us with a detailed analysis of the June 1964 murders of three civil rights workers (James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner) in Philadelphia, Mississippi.The author effectively sets the scene for what the volunteer workers can expect as they prepare to travel to Mississippi to register blacks to vote.Most Mississippians view them as interlopers who have no business upsetting their way of life.Michael Schwerner was the one the KKK targeted for elimination.The other two individuals just happened to be with him when the crime was committed.The racist judge meted out only perfunctory penalities considering the seriousness of the crime.The story is left undone because a mistrial was declared for the one who planned the crime, Edgar Ray "Preacher" Killen, because the one lone holdout was a woman who declared she "could never convict a preacher."In that case she should never have been on the jury in the first place.She has since said she "was sorry to let him go."This is a first rate book, and the author's follow up entitled "Justice in Mississippi" is about the June of 2005 murder conviction of Edgar Ray Killen. ... Read more

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Lawsuits tried in Tunica County, Mississippi form the skeleton for this book, telling about historical events in the past and fleshed out with biographical sketches of early citizens of this Delta Country, a Country formed and still heavily influenced by the Mississippi River, and a Country that has metamorphosed from one of the poorest in the Nation to, with the advent of casinos, one of the richest. The reader will find the bad and the sad counterbalanced with the happy and amusing, all laced with the philosophical and the evident affection of the author for his community. ... Read more

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In 1936 Mississippi, twelve-year-old Shortning Bread Jackson comes up with an ingenious scheme to free his father from the chain gang to which he had been sentenced for a crime that he had not committed. ... Read more

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Fantastic Amazing
There was this boy named Shortning.His dad got taken away to a gang known as the Mississippi Chain Gang.Ever since then, Shortnings family has been torn apart.So Shortning decides to make a plan.His plan was to make a rumor.Mississippi people were dumb and believed anything that was thrown at them.Shortning meets one of his best friends in a weirs way. Shortning found Hawk in a pond drowning and jumped in and pulled Hawk out. Hawk was a white boy and refused to shake Shortning's hand.Hawk ended up helping Shortning with his plan.

I liked this book, because it taught me a lot about historical races and religions.I love those kinds of books when blacks and whites or any different kinds of religions come together.I like when little kids are heroes like Shortning.I also learned about what they wore and where they worked and how they worked for a living.It also taught me never to give up.

This Book Should Have Won a 1998 Newbery Honor!
Wow--this is a gripping tale about poverty, racial prejudice and socialinjustice rampant in the rural South during the Depression. In 20 shortchapters author Robinet depicts the inherited evils of the era, whereinsharecropping was merely a legitimized form of Slavery. Ethical question:are we justified to use any means to ensure our physical and economicsurvival?Why play fair and abide by humanitarian rules, when the enemy isbrutally corrupt and ruthlessly embittered?How far must familial honordictate the suffering of its members?

For Shortening Bread Jackson's12th birthday, he wants to give his large family the gift they most desire:his daddy's freedom from the harsh chain gang, for a crime he did notcommit. But there was no justice to be had for sharecropping Blacks whobucked the system in a mangy widespot in the road called Sleepy Corners.This psychological flyspeck on a shabby map was home to a few rich folkswho wielded the power to keep a disenfranchised race enslaved into the 20thcentury. Running scared and desperate to make an example of those whoprotested inhumane treatment--those who defied the ancient socialsystem--the sherrif and landowners unite to retain their pettydictatorship.

But young Shortening Bread is clever beyond his years andall his older brothers combined. He has a dream and knows it is up to himto realize it for them all. He uses his wits and knowledge of human natureto start a rumor about an FBI agent coming to release his daddy from thechain gang. Can a mere kid defy social convention and actually deliver awhite man intent on justice, who will free Rufus Jackson at high noon onWednesday? Sherrif Clark doesn't take kindly to being made a fool of in hisown domain, or being maniuplated by Blacks. If this scheme can be pulledoff, will their lives be worth anything afterwards?

Can a white boybefriend a black boy, defying generations ofstrict protocol, in an areapoliced by the Klan?They may not play together or even shake hands, notsay thank you for helping save a life.Thisriveting tale of interracialcooperation to achieve an underground form of justice will hold theinterest of grades 4-10.But all conscientious adults should read thisbook and never forget our dark past of shame, so that such atrocities donot occur again. Black History revived! ... Read more

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The United States legal community's most widely consulted and most respected directory of lawyers and law firms. ... Read more