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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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The Legacy of a Murder (full text)

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 31. Mar, 2008 in civil rights movement, politics, publication, race and racism, southwest ms

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 [...]

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