Robert Kegler, 84, died on September 12 at his home in Charleston, at the edge of the Mississippi Delta. For the last 45 years he struggled to discover the facts of his mother's death. Birdia Kegler, a Civil Rights veteran, died in a one-car crash on the evening of January 12, 1966, returning from a meeting with Robert F. Kennedy in Jackson. She was 58.
Photographed on February 15, 2010, in Charleston, Miss.
More about Birdia Kegler.
