Wednesday, October 24, 2007
I want to thank pdxWoman for exposing the falsehoods of Blair, who commented on my recent post on Megan Williams as well as on one of pdxWoman’s. pdxWoman was writing about underreporting of the Megan Williams case and of other cases of violence against and abductions of Black women; I was writing about the history […]
P6 highlighted an important article in Slate, probing “why and when we will tolerate lawbreaking.”
Tolerated lawbreaking is almost always a response to a political failure-the inability of our political institutions to adapt to social change or reach a rational compromise that reflects the interests of the nation and all concerned parties. That’s why the American […]
Diane Nash’s statement for my American Prospect article was longer than I could include in the published piece. Her statement is worth reading in full:
The State of Mississippi is trying to change its image to appear to be a state that is no longer racist. If Mississippi would focus on truly eliminating and/or decreasing […]
My latest is now out in The American Prospect online (free registration required), in many ways a companion piece to my previous blog post.
For the last eight days in Jackson, Mississippi, reputed Ku Klux Klan member James Ford Seale has sat, mostly silent, in the James O. Eastland U.S. Courthouse. Seale has been watching the […]
In today’s Clarion Ledger, Jerry Mitchell published information about the abduction, torture and interrogation in southwest Mississippi of 16 other Black men—in addition to Henry Dee and Charles Moore—during the first months of 1964. Mitchell’s article is based on a Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission report [pdf] which has long intrigued and disturbed me. The Sovereignty […]
The James Ford Seale trial has been underway since Monday. I’ve been following it closely but have not had the time to give it coverage on my blog. In any case my second hand coverage would not compare to what is available elsewhere. Matt Saldaña is doing great, detailed coverage at the Jackson Free Press, […]
“I have hoped and prayed for over 40 years for justice including full disclosure and the complete prosecution of all those involved in the murder of my son James, and his companions, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner.” (Fannie L. Chaney, August 1, 2006)
Last night, Fannie Lee Chaney’s soul left her body. She was the mother […]
For 43 years, Henry Hezekiah Dee’s family and friends had only their memories of the 19-year-old, who, along with is friend Charles Eddie Moore, was abducted and murdered by Klansmen in southwest Mississippi in 1964. Filmmaker David Ridgen and Thomas Moore, brother of Charles, have recently discovered a photo and given back to the […]
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43 years ago today, Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee were hitchhiking from Meadville, MS and were picked up by James Ford Seale. Seale and others took the two 19-year-old Black men into the Homochitto National Forest, which surrounds the highway, tortured and interrogated them. Later the same day, […]
Today’s the day of the conference. Margaret Burnham, who is one of the conveners, has a great op-ed in today’s Boston Globe.
A quiet campaign against the old shibboleth that justice delayed is justice denied is being waged in communities across the country, particularly in the South. An arrest in January of a 71-year-old man […]
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
David Ridgen is a documentary film maker for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. I’ve mentioned him before in passing because he has been making a documentary film about the Henry Dee and Charles Moore murders case, called Mississippi Cold Case.
David Ridgen also sometimes contributes to written CBC news articles. David Ridgen wrote to me recently to […]
I always feel guilty when I don’t blog for more than a week or two, and now I’ve just learned that one of my favorite state legislators has put Hungry Blues on a list of blogs that her staffers are supposed to follow. What an honor, but now I feel even a little more guilty…
Anyway, […]
By the Arkansas Delta Truth and Justice Center*
How US Attorney obtained its indictment against James Ford Seale
How MS AG could have obtained more indictments in Neshoba
What may have been the key to US attorney Dunn Lampton proceeding to obtain an indictment against James Ford Seale for the […]
If you’ve been watching the mainstream news on last week’s indictment of James Ford Seale in connection with the May 1964 Klan murders of two nineteen year old, Black Mississippians, Charles Moore and Henry Dee, you may have come across this interesting tidbit that appeared in the New York Times:
In 2002, Mr. Seale’s son began […]
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Reputed former Klansman James Ford Seale was arrested today on federal kidnapping charges in connection with the May 2, 1964 Klan abduction and slaying of Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore. The Clarion Ledger’s Jerry Mitchell reports:
Asked by The Clarion-Ledger in 2000 if he had anything to do with crime, Seale replied, “I ain’t […]
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