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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...
...Imperial Wizard of the Klan in Mississippi, Bowers compiled an unequaled record of murder and mayhem. Klan experts suspect him of orchestrating more than 300 bombings, assaults and arsons, plus nine murders. He served six years in prison for conspiracy in connection with the deaths of Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney, the civil rights workers whose killings were depicted in the movie Mississippi Burning...
...moral and legal victories of the civil rights movement leave reasonable Americans feeling hopeful and good about themselves. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolent confrontations continue to reassure the fearful suburbs. The bushwhacked Medgar Evers and the murdered civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner become martyrs for an inspiring cause. We Shall Overcome is a crossover...
Branch's narrative is rich in historical ironies, none more telling than the gruesome discovery of Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner on the same day that Lyndon Johnson used a dubious North Vietnamese attack in the Gulf of Tonkin as an excuse to enlarge a war he privately did not believe...