Download The Parchman Ordeal By G. Mark Lafrancis, Robert Morgan Darrell White Pdf Ebook
Download The Parchman Ordeal By G. Mark Lafrancis, Robert Morgan Darrell White Pdf Ebook Genre : History ,Books ,Professional & Technical ,Law ,Nonfiction ,Social Science ,United States ,True Crime An account of the civil rights march that ended in the unlawful incarceration of African American protestors—and the basis for the 2017 documentary. In October 1965, nearly 800 young people attempted to march from their churches in Natchez to protest segregation, discrimination and mistreatment by white leaders and elements of the Ku Klux Klan. As they exited the churches, local authorities forced the would-be marchers onto buses and charged them with “parading without a permit,” a local ordinance later ruled unconstitutional. For approximately 150 of these young men and women, this was only the beginning. They were taken to the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, where prison authorities subjected them to days of abuse, humiliation and punishment under horrific condition
