I’m covering the developments in the Stanley Nelson’s Frank Morris murder investigation at Colorlines today: On Dec. 10, 1964, a 51-year-old, black shoe-shop owner named Frank Morris was burned alive inside his store in Ferriday, La. Morris miraculously survived severe burns to all of the skin on his body, was hospitalized and lived four more [...]
Investigations Force Feds to Revisit Murders of Civil Rights Era
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 12. Jan, 2011 in breaking news, civil rights cold case project, clifton walker case, clip, frank morris case, louisiana, mississippi, race and racism, southwest ms
Edgar Ray Killen Says God Will Get You (If You Helped Put Him Away)
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 01. Mar, 2010 in breaking news, civil rights cold case project, civil rights movement, clip, friends, mississippi, neshoba murders, race and racism
[I'm honored to have collaborated with Jerry Mitchell on this article appearing on page 1 of today's Jackson Clarion-Ledger. —BG] Killen claims God is on his side Lawsuit filed last week alleges civil rights violations Jerry Mitchell and Ben Greenberg The Clarion-Ledger March 1, 2010 Convicted Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen says there wasn’t enough [...]
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Folks I've got them hungry blues
And nothin' in this to lose
People tellin' me to choose
Between dyin' and lyin' and
keep on cryin'
Tired of them hungry blues
Listen ain't you heard the news
There's another thing to choose
A brand new world
clean and fine
Where nobody's hungry
And there's no color line
A thing like that's worth
anybody dyin'
I ain't got a thing to lose
But them doggone hungry blues
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