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Immortalized in blues songs and movies like Cool Hand Luke and The Defiant Ones, Mississippi's infamous Parchman State Penitentiary was, in the pre-civil rights south, synonymous with cruelty. Now, noted historian David Oshinsky gives us the true story of the notorious prison, drawing on police records, prison documents, folklore, blues songs, and oral history, from the days of cotton-field chain gangs to the 1960s, when Parchman was used to break the wills of civil rights workers who journeyed south on Freedom Rides.
Kindle Book
- Release date: June 23, 2008
OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9781439107744
- Release date: June 23, 2008
EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9781439107744
- File size: 5118 KB
- Release date: June 23, 2008
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English