Outside Agitator

by Eagles, Charles W.

• ISBN13: 9780817310691
• ISBN10: 081731069X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: Univ of Alabama Pr

Summary

Outside Agitator tells the dramatic, largely forgotten story behind the 1965 killing of civil rights worker Jon Daniels in Lowndes County, Alabama, by detailing the lives of killer and victim. A white Episcopal seminary student from New Hampshire, Jon Daniels helped organize blacks in Selma during the aftermath of the Selma-to-Montgomery march. In August 1965 he was fatally shot in neighboring Lowndes County by Tom Coleman, a highway department engineer and steadfast segregationist, who was later acquitted by an all-white jury. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Charles W. Eagles, professor of history at the University of Mississippi, is author of several books

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
From Keene to Cambridge	p. 1
Selma	p. 29
The Black Belt: Reality Is a Kaleidoscope	p. 61
"Bloody" Lowndes	p. 89
The Lowndes County Movement: A Genuine Social and Political Revolution	p. 119
Demonstration and Death	p. 163
Preparing for Trial: Friends Meet in Hayneville	p. 185
Trial in a Temple of Justice	p. 213
The Making of a Martyr	p. 251
Notes	p. 265
Bibliography	p. 307
Acknowledgments	p. 321
Index	p. 325
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