Visiting James Chaney: Road to End U.S. Racism Long and Winding, But One We Must Travel
In an essay for the Mississippi Free Press, Donna Ladd recounts her pilgrimage to James Chaney's fortified, repeatedly defaced tombstone south of Meridian and the 1964 Klan murder of Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, whose killers were familiar figures from her Neshoba County childhood. She argues racism is a national epidemic rather than a Mississippi peculiarity, urging Americans to face uncomfortable history and keep fighting until the work is done.
