No Place for Pilgrims: Solving the Murder of William Moore, the Last Cold Civil Rights Case

While doing research for his ninth-grade civics class in 1976, Mike Marshall found an article inTimemagazine about William Moore, a thirty-five-year-old postman from Binghamton, New York. In 1963, Moore arrived at the Chattanooga bus station from Washington, DC, where he strapped on his protest signs. He planned to walk to the governor's mansion in Jackson, Mississippi, and hand-deliver a letter to Governor Ross Barnett. On the third day of his walk as he pushed his cart through Keener, Ala...