Blood Justice: The Lynching of Mack Charles Parker

The year was 1959; the place, Poplarville, Mississippi. Charged with the rape of a white woman, a young black man named Mack Charles Parker was abducted from his jail cell by a white mob, beaten, carried across state lines, and ultimately shot, with his abductors leaving his body in the Pearl River. A massive FBI investigation ensued, and two grand juries met to investigate the case; yet no arrests or indictments were ever made.

Blood Justice meticulously reconstructs for the first time the f…