Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta
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In 1948, in a stubbornly Jim Crow corner of the Mississippi Delta, society matron Idella Thompson was stabbed at least 150 times in her own home. Her daughter, Ruth Dickins, was the only other person there. She told authorities a Black man she did not recognize had fled, but no evidence of him was found. When Dickins was convicted and sentenced to life, the community exploded. Petitions circulated, and after only six years the governor granted an indefinite suspension and she went free. Beverly Lowry, who was ten at the time and lived miles from the Thompsons, tells a story of white privilege that still has ramifications, reflecting on the crime, its aftermath, and how it clarified her own Mississippi upbringing.
Genres: True Crime
ISBN-13: 9780525657231
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