Such a world is hard to imagine yet it is evoked with such clarity here that you feel the pain and anger at every turn. The summer before Graden died, I sat beside him on a crowded school bus on its way to Jackson, There had been two meetings since the one that I had attended… However well intentioned this groups were, the result was chaos, dangerous confrontations between white and black people in the street and the wrath of the white ruling elite. Mississippi in the 1960s was a time of racial inequality and it was a time when people from the northern states would come to the South in order to get people behind their cause – fighting for racial equality and standing up for their cause. why were the riots started in the first place and why were the 1960s such a time of hatred and racism? Warren never forgets this and spends all his life avenging his brother. Graden Williams is kidnapped one evening, tortured and cruelly dumped in a swamp. In Mississippi, I learned that I was poor PHILADELPHIA – The home of the Liberty Bell and where Etta livesġ960s Mississippi – A shocking and brutal time in American history Where Warren sits in his dream and thinks of freedom MISSISSIPPI – Jackson – Jackson Municipal Court He’s angry and wants answers so his search for the one man still at large takes him to a small town in Northern Ontario, Canada but what he finds there is not what he expects and he is forced to question what he has always held to be the truth. More than forty years after the death, laws are changing and so Warren may have the best chance yet of avenging his brother’s death. Warren suffers heavily with guilt and regret, angry that those responsible got away with the crime. When Graden is murdered one night in Mississippi, the brutality of the crime is shocking and so Warren dedicates his life to getting justice. One Night in Mississippi is the story of Graden Williams and his brother Warren. A family torn apart by the events in Mississippi and a brother’s desperate search for the truth

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