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Thursday, June 23, 2005

 
I. Civil rights slayings in Mississippi

The names of some people killed in Mississippi and listed on the Southern Poverty Law Center's Civil Rights Memorial. (Many names are missing.)

• The Rev. George Lee, Belzoni, May 7, 1955.
• Lamar Smith, Brookhaven, August 13, 1955.
• Emmett Louis Till, Money, August 28, 1955.
• Mack Charles Parker, Poplarville, April 25, 1959.
• Herbert Lee, Liberty, September 25, 1961, Liberty.
• Cpl. Roman Ducksworth Jr., April 9, 1962, Taylorsville.
• Paul Guihard, Oxford, September 30, 1962.
• Medgar Evers, Jackson, June 12, 1963.
• Louis Allen, Liberty, April 7, 1964, Liberty.
• Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore, Meadville, May 2, 1964.
• James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, Philadelphia, June 21, 1964.
• Vernon Dahmer, Hattiesburg, January 10, 1966.
• Ben Chester White, Natchez, June 10, 1966.
• Warlest Jackson, Natchez, February 27, 1967.
• Benjamin Brown, Jackson, May 12, 1967.

Others killed in Mississippi suspected by SPLC as victims of racially motivated murders, from 1954 to 1968.

• Eli Brumfield, McComb, October 31, 1961.
• Woodrow Wilson Daniels, Water Valley, July 1, 1958.
• William Roy Prather, Corinth, November 1, 1959.
• Jonas Causey, Clarksdale, May 10, 1959.
• George Love, Ruleville, January 8, 1958.
• Charles Brown, Yazoo City, June 25, 1957.
• Milton Russell, Belzoni, January 21, 1956.
• Edward Duckworth, Raleigh, January 1956.
• James E. Evanston, near Drew, December 24, 1955.
• Izell (or Izeal) Henry, beaten on July 28, 1954, Glendora. Died in 1958 or 1959.
• Clinton Melton, Glendora, December 3, 1955.
• Willie Joel Lovett, Tchula, June 30, 1963.
• Unidentified black woman and two unidentified black men, Woodville, February 1964.
• Johnny Queen, Fayette, August 8, 1965.
• Ollie W. Shelby, Jackson, January 22, 1965.
• Romie Harris, Tupelo, December 30, 1963.
• Unidentified black man, in Big Black River in Goodman, September 11, 1963.
• Freddie Lee Thomas Jr., Greenwood, September 3, 1965 or August 20, 1965.
• Julius Y. Jones, Laurel, September 4, 1965.
• Jimmy Lee Griffin, Sturgis, September 27, 1965.
• Robert Joseph McNair, Pelahatchie, November 6, 1965.
• Lillie Dell Power, Starkville, November 27, 1965.
• Eli Brumfield, McComb, October 13, 1961.
• Sylvester Maxwell, Canton, January 17, 1963.
• Herbert Oarsby or Hubert Orsby in the Big Black River near Pickens, September 9, 1964.
• Unidentified black woman near the Columbus Air Force Base, August 29, 1963.
• Unidentified black man shot to death in car, Natchez, March 1964.
• Ernest Jells, 21, Clarksdale, September 23, 1963.
• Ollie B. Shelby, 18, Hinds County, January 1965.
• John Lee, 31, Goshen Springs, February 1965.
• Donald Rasbery, 19, Okolona, February 1965.
• Willie Henry Lee, 21, Goshen Springs, February 25, 1965.
• Jessie Brown, Winona, January 13, 1965.
• Saleam K. Triggs, Forest, January 25, 1965.
• Curtie Watts, Forest, January 25, 1965.
• Robert McNair, Pelahatchie, November 6, 1965.





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