Death in the Delta: Uncovering a Mississippi Family Secret

Contents

Contents ix Primary and Secondary Players xi Prologue 3 chapter one Out of the Blue 7 chapter two A Secret Will Out 13 chapter three The Scion 23 chapter four My Mother’s Version 33 chapter five The New Mississippi 51 chapter six What King Evans Told Me 61 chapter seven Big 78 chapter eight Undertow 97 chapter nine Revelations 103 chapter ten Yet Another Version 113 chapter eleven Silencing of a Community 123 chapter twelve Obstacles 133 chapter thirteen Breakdown viii contents 146 chapter fourteen Digging Deeper 157 chapter fifteen Sis 164 chapter sixteen Dad’s Final Days 177 chapter seventeen History 194 chapter eighteen Springtime in Mississippi 202 chapter nineteen Reasonable Doubt 209 chapter twenty Memory 217 Acknowledgments 219 A Note on Sources ...