My Mother's Witness: The Peggy Morgan Story

My Mother's Witness: The Peggy Morgan Story by Carolyn Haines. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781579660420.

A portrait of Peggy Morgan describes how one woman struggled to escape the brutality, poverty, neglect, and abuse of her childhood in rural Mississippi, her marriage ot Lloyd Morgan, her exposure to the racial violence of a South caught up in the Civil Rights Movement, and her key role as a witness for the prosecution at the retrial of Byron De La Beckwith, the man ultimately convicted of killing Medgar Evers.