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Picking Up the Trail from a 25-Year-Old Tip

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 16. Dec, 2009 in boston, civil rights movement, clifton walker case, mississippi, photo, race and racism, southwest ms

In October, I was in Mississippi again, following leads in my investigation of the 1964 murder of Clifton Walker, a black man from Woodville, MS. Driving home from the swing shift at the International Paper plant in Natchez, MS, Walker was ambushed by Klansmen, who stopped his car on a deserted road and blew his [...]

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“Uppity,” That’s Racist for “Kill”

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 04. Sep, 2008 in breaking news, civil rights movement, election, race and racism, southwest ms

US Representative Lynn Westmoreland, a Republican from Georgia, made a very bald appeal to racists to unite against Obama. This wasn’t a private statement caught on a mic he didn’t realize was on. This was a statement for the record, to reporters, in the halls of the United States Congress. Westmoreland was discussing vice presidential [...]

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