Over the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend some attention turned to US Senator John Kerry’s (D-MA) renewed effort to open the FBI records of Dr. King. Civil Rights Cold Case reporter Jerry Mitchell reported: U.S. Sen. John Kerry plans to introduce legislation next week that would pave the way for the release of thousands [...]
John Kerry, MLK and Access to Records
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 22. Jan, 2010 in boston, breaking news, civil rights cold case project, civil rights movement, clifton walker case, dee moore case, mississippi, politics, race and racism, southwest ms
Remembering the Names
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 29. Dec, 2009 in breaking news, civil rights movement, mississippi, neshoba murders, race and racism
USA Today reports that the FBI Field Office in Jackson, Mississippi may soon be named after James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman—the three civil rights workers murdered by Klansmen in Neshoba County, MS, June 21, 1964. JACKSON, Miss. — This state, whose civil rights history is marred with negatives, wants to name its new Federal [...]
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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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