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

While doing research for a term paper on civil rights for his ninth—grade civics class in the spring of 1976, Mike Marshall found an article in Time magazine about William Moore, a thirty—five—year—old postman from Binghamton, New York. On the afternoon of April 20, 1963, Moore arrived at the Chattanooga bus station from Washington, D.C., 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 B...