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Goodman, Chaney and Schwerner Remembered
About 100 people gathered over the weekend to pay respect to the short lives of Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Paul Goodman, three civil rights workers killed in 1964 near Philadelphia, Mississippi.
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Labels: 1965 voting rights act, Chaney, civil rights, civil rights movement, cold cases, Goodman, KKK
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Jury is in; Seale guilty after two hours of deliberation
Former KKK man found guilty of kidnappingsContinued --
By Matt Saldana in Jackson, Mississippi
June 15, 2007 11:32am
A FORMER Ku Klux Klansman was found guilty of kidnapping today in the 1964 deaths of two black men in Mississippi, a case that highlighted white supremacist violence during the civil rights era.
A jury deliberated just two hours before convicting James Seale, who was also charged with conspiracy in the killings of 19-year-olds Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore.
Labels: Charles Eddie Moore, civil rights, cold cases, Henry Hezekiah Dee, Homochitto National Forest, James Ford Seale, KKK, lynch, Mississippi
Attorneys conclude case against Seale
Witnesses called on behalf of James Ford Seale, 71, included his younger brother and an Alabama forensic pathologist who testified he studied autopsy reports on the two young men but could not draw any conclusions about how they died.
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Labels: Charles Eddie Moore, civil rights, cold cases, FBI, Henry Hezekiah Dee, Homochitto National Forest, James Ford Seale, KKK, Mississippi murders
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Money to probe cold rights cases advances
PETER HARDIN
TIMES-DISPATCH WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT
reports ...
WASHINGTON -- Widows of two civil-rights activists slain in the 1960s appealed to Congress yesterday to help bring justice in scores of cold murder cases from that era.
To do so, Myrlie Evers-Williams said, would aid surviving families and tell the nation "that these people's lives were not in vain." She testified on the 44th anniversary of the assassination in Mississippi of her husband, Medgar Evers.
Further prosecutions could help the nation understand its history better in order to heal deep wounds and achieve reconciliation, added Rita Schwerner Bender. Her husband, Michael Schwerner, was killed in Mississippi in 1964.
A House subcommittee unanimously approved a bill to authorize spending $13.5 million a year over 10 years for reopening the cases that have gone cold. Of that, $11.5 million would go to the Justice Department and the remainder to help state and local authorities.
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Labels: Charles Eddie Moore, civil rights movement, cold cases, FBI, Goodman, Henry Dee, Henry Hezekiah Dee, James Chaney, James Ford Seale, Jimmy Lee Jackson, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Medgar Evers
Saturday, June 02, 2007
Blogging Across Mississippi: Photos Online From Birdia Keglar Highway Dedication
Birdia Keglar Highway Dedication
June 1, 2007
Charleston, Miss.
Photos are now posted from the highway dedication that took place June 1. You can view (and download) from here.
Labels: 1965 voting rights act, Birdia Keglar, civil rights, civil rights movement James Alcorn, cold cases, Emmett Till, Hamlett, Keglar, Mississippi, Mississippi Delta
Opening arguments set for Monday in 1964 case in Mississippi
JACKSON, Miss. --Opening arguments are set to start Monday afternoon in the federal trial of reputed Klansman James Ford Seale, who's charged with kidnapping and conspiracy in the 1964 slayings of two black teenagers in southwest Mississippi.
The third day of jury selection stretched late into Friday night and the pool of potential jurors was narrowed to 34 people from across the southern half of Mississippi.
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Labels: Charles Eddie Moore, Charles Moore, civil rights, cold cases, James Ford Seale
DOJ Probes Turn to Civil Rights Division
For some former career staff in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, Bradley Schlozman's face-off with the Democratic-led Senate Judiciary Committee this week couldn't have come soon enough.
"I'm glad to see it," says Toby Moore, a researcher who worked in the division's voting section from 2000 to 2005. "It's way overdue."
That's because Schlozman, who was a senior political official in the division from 2003 to 2006, including five months as its acting assistant attorney general, has emerged as the latest lightning rod for allegations that the Justice Department has become politicized during the Bush administration.
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Labels: Birdia Keglar, Chaney, Charles Eddie Moore, Charles Moore, civil rights, civil rights movement, Cleve McDowell, cold cases
Birdia Keglar Memorial Highway; Sign Unveiled
It was a beautiful day in the Mississippi Delta as friends and family of the late Birdia Keglar were present to see a 25 mile stretch of highway dedicated to the voting rights advocate who was killed in 1966.
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Labels: Adlena Hamlett, Birdia Keglar, civil rights movement, cold cases, Emmett Till, Ku Klux Klan, Mississippi, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi murders, voting rights
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