Books by Howard Ball and Complete Book Reviews
Howard Ball, Author . Univ. Press of Kansas $29.95 (254p) ISBN 978-0-7006-1461-5
In a follow-up to his Murder in Mississippi
, Ball provides an account of the 2005 trial and conviction of 80-year-old Edgar Ray Killen, who in 1964 orchestrated the murders of three civil rights workers—Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and...
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Howard Ball, Author University Press of Kansas $12.95 (171p) ISBN 978-0-7006-1316-8
A former Mississippi State University professor delivers an impassioned chronicle of an infamous crime in this unevenly crafted, but serviceable, history. In 1964, after a Ku Klux Klan leader ordered the killing of Michael Schwerner, a white...
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Howard Ball, Author Crown Publishers $30 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-59931-0
Thurgood Marshall's long and influential life of challenging racism and championing affirmative action makes him prime biography material today. Ball, a political science professor at the University of Vermont and author of 16 previous books on the...
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