Blood Brother: Jonathan Daniels and His Sacrifice for Civil Rights

This account of Jonathan Daniels draws on his letters, papers, photographs, journal entries, and taped interviews. It follows the events that led him to march for civil rights and to the moment of his death, then examines the trial of the person who killed him. Daniels’s efforts to help others and fight for human rights are placed alongside the legal and political changes that followed in Lowndes County and across the nation. The book presents his life and civil-rights work through his own written record and other documentary materials.