Jeter, Geri

Susan Klopfer and her husband, Fred, once lived on the grounds of Mississippi's Parchman Penitentiary where Fred was the state's chief of private prison psychologists. While there, Susan roamed the Delta, visiting older people who'd lived through the modern civil rights movement (1955 to 1968). She became intrigued with this era, after learning new stories surrounding the murders of Emmett Till, Medgar Evers and others who were key to bringing change in these turbulent years. She later wrote The Emmett Till Book, Who Killed Emmett Till? and Where Rebels Roost: Mississippi Civil Rights Revisite...