The Ghosts of Medgar Evers: A Tale of Race, Murder, Mississippi, and Hollywood
Mississippi native Willie Morris, author ofNorth Toward Home,New York Days, and other books, offers an  eccentric mixture of history and autobiography as he recounts his involvement in the making of the filmGhosts of Mississippi. After covering the final  trial of the white racist who had  assassinated Civil Rights leader Medgar Evers 30 years earlier, Morris  suggested to a friend in Hollywood that the subject of the trial would make a fine movie. InThe Ghosts  of Medgar Evers, Morris concentrates not only on how the trial of Evers's killer sought to resolve  history, but also on how Hollywood tried--and failed--to convey serious history to the public.