In doing my work on racial violence in Southwest Mississippi in the 1950s and 1960s, it is exciting to get to know some of the other people doing similar work.
Syracuse University College of Law Professors Janice McDonald and Paula C. Johnson direct the Cold Case Justice Initiative, which has been playing a role in the […]
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Also tagged concordi sentinel, ferriday la, frank morris, janis mcdonald, natchez ms, paula johnson, syracuse, syracuse university college of law
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Saturday, December 29, 2007
Last Sunday, the New York Times reported that among hundreds of recently declassified intelligence documents from the 1950s was a 1950 proposal by former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
to suspend habeas corpus and imprison some 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty….
Hoover wanted President Harry S. Truman to proclaim the mass arrests necessary to “protect the […]
Filed in Weblogs, breaking news, civil liberties, civil rights, civil rights movement, human rights, immigrants, katrina, louisiana, nola, politics, race and racism, torture and detention
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Also tagged church committee, congress, fbi, globalization, habeas corpus, halliburton, harry s truman, j edgar hoover, milton friedman, mississippi, naomi klein, nsa, segregation, shock doctrine, sovereignty commission
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Exciting developments in the notorious case of the 1964 murders of the three civil rights workers, James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman. Jerry Mitchell reports in the Clarion Ledger:
Authorities should reopen the Klan’s 1964 killings of three civil rights workers because of newly discovered evidence, family members say.
“Without a doubt,” said Ben Chaney of […]
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Also tagged ben chaney, clarion ledger, david goodman, jerry mitchell, jim hood, mississippi, murder, neshoba county, philadelphia, racism, rita schwerner bender
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