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The Legacy of a Murder (full text)

I’ve uploaded to scribd.com the complete PDF version my article in the March/April issue of ColorLines Magazine, “The Legacy of a Murder,” about the 1959 murder of Samuel O’Quinn in Centreville, MS. You can read it in the handy viewer, embedded in this post, or you can go to the article’s page on Scribd and [...]

New Convictions Posssible in Neshoba Murders

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 [...]