Tells the story of early civil rights martyr Bill Moore, a white postal worker who was shot and killed by Ku Klux Klan member Floyd Simpson in 1963 while on a well-publicized trek from Tennessee to issue a personal plea to Mississippi governor Ross Barnett for racial tolerance, and discusses the difficulties others encountered in trying to complete Moore's mission.
year: 2003
call number/section: 1000
subjects: civil rights movements, southern states, history, 20th century, african americans, civil rights workers, crimes against, case studies, interviews, whites, southern states, race relations, case studies, alabama, mississippi