Word: schwerner
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DIED. LAWRENCE RAINEY SR., 79, former Mississippi sheriff acquitted in 1967 of conspiracy in the 1964 murders of civil rights workers James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner; of cancer; in Meridian, Miss. The case, in which seven Ku Klux Klansmen were convicted, inspired the film Mississippi Burning...
...overwhelmed by "At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America" by Philip Dray (Random House; January 22), both giving the book a starred review. Says Kirkus: "The ghastly story of lynching, by the coauthor of 'We Are Not Afraid: The Story of Goodman, Schwerner, Chaney and the Civil Rights Campaign for Mississippi'...This is history most fundamental, the kind that forces us to ponder the very nature of humanity." PW agrees: "Prodigiously researched, tightly written and compelling history of the lynching of African-Americans...Dray balances moral indignation with a sound understanding of history and politics...