|In June of 1964, a members of the White Knights of the
KKK descended on the Mount Zion Baptist Church near Philadelphia, Mississippi.
They assaulted members of the all-black church before burning it to the
ground. (Days later, three civil rights workers investigating the
church-burning would be murdered as a result of a conspiracy between
the Klan and local law enforcement officials.) This image of a black parishioner
standing amidst the ruins of his church suggests something not evident
in the first images of evil: the great sense of loss felt by the victims