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 [...]
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Racially Motivated Attack in Courtenay, BC
I came across this chilling report via Kulpreet on Twitter: The original YouTube video of the racist scumbags attacking the Black man, Jay Phillips, is here. I am glad to find the CBC reporting that the attackers have been charged: Three men have now been charged with assault in an attack on Vancouver Island that [...]
July 4, 1964
July 4, 1964 was the last time Julia Dobbins saw her brother, JoEd Edwards. Eight days later, he went missing. Rumors were that the Klan took away the 21-year-old Black man and murdered him. His mother died in 1990 never having learned what truly happened to her son. July 4, 1964 was the thirteenth day [...]
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