It has been over 50 years and some things have changed and some things have said the same [video]https://www.facebook.com/SPLCenter/?pnref=story[/video] [video=youtube;2gYKcZCWv-w]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gYKcZCWv-w[/video] [video=youtube;cDqf0B2_j1A]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDqf0B2_j1A[/video]
I remember reading about this story in the newspapers when I was a child. Was anyone ever bought to justice for this horrible crime?
“Investigation of the 1964 Murders of Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman – Case Closed.” So stated federal and Mississippi state officials this past week in declaring at an end their long attempt to bring to justice all the men who had committed one of the most notorious crimes in modern American history – the murder of three civil rights workers near Philadelphia, Miss. in June 1964. Although seven men involved in the murder were convicted in 1967 of federal conspiracy charges, most of the mob of at least 19 escaped justice. Four decades later, however, the Mississippi Attorney General’s office revived the investigation and, based on new evidence, arrested one of the latter, Edgar Ray Killen, the ringleader of the death squad, and charged him with three counts of manslaughter. In 2005, a Mississippi jury found him guilty, and he was sentenced to serve 60 years in the Mississippi state prison. He is, at 91, still alive." http://thewestsidegazette.com/murder-of-3-civil-rights-workers-and-the-judgment-of-history/
Thank you for the link to that article. It's so hard to believe that during the same time frame these three young men were murdered, this country was punishing Muhammad Ali for refusing to serve in the Army. They expected young Black men to go fight to free the Vietnamese and those Black men weren't even free themselves in the Deep South.
