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Recoking in the South Jack Thornell/Associated Press 1964 The burned station wagon of three missing civil rights workers, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney. The three were later found murdered near Philadelphia, Miss. Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company
                           
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Reckoning in the South Bettmann/Corbis 1964 - Following the announcement that 20 men had been arrested in connection with the slayings in Mississippi, Dr. Martin Luther King called the arrests "first steps toward justice," and declared that the F.B.I. action renewed his faith in democracy. Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company
                        
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Reckoning in the South Jack Thornell/Associated Press -1964 Neshoba County Sheriff Lawrence Rainey, right, his deputy Cecil Price, left, and an unidentified friend, center, are shown in Meridian, Miss., on Dec. 10, 1964, after U.S. Commissioner Esther Carter dismissed charges against them and 17 others on charges in connection with the slaying of the three civil rights workers. Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company
                                        
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Reckoning in the South Marianne Todd/Getty Images - 2005 Edgar Ray Killen, 80, is escorted into the Neshoba County Courthouse by his stepson, Jerry Edwards in June, 2005. Killen was convicted for the 1964 killings of Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner. Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company
                                        
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Reckoning in the South Bettmann/Corbis - 1955 Mamie Bradley weeps as the body of her son, Emmett Till, 14, arrived at a Chicago rail station in December, 1955. The youth was found dead in a Mississippi creek with a bullet hole behind the ear. Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company
                                              
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Reckoning in the South Frank Polich/Reuters - 2005 An F.B.I. evidence response team exhumes the body of Emmett Till at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Ill. Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company
                                                       
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Reckoning in the South Elliott Minor/Associated Press - 2003 Roosevelt Curry, right, kneels beside the grave of his aunt, Lena Baker, in Cuthbert, Ga. The woman died in the electric chair for shooting a white man she had been hired to care for. At her 1944 trial she explained to an all-white, all-male jury that she had killed her employer in self-defense, after he imprisoned her and coerced her into sex. The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles has said it will grant a pardon. Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company
                                  
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Reckoning in the South Hope Kinchen/Associated Press - 2003 Alonzo Chappell visits his mother's grave in Jacksonville, Fla. His mother, Johnnie Mae Chappell, was murdered in March 1964 in Jacksonville. The state's governor, Jeb Bush, has ordered a review of the case. Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company
                                   
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Reckoning in the South Kate Medley/Associated Press - 2005 Thomas Moore at the grave of his younger brother, Charles Moore, in a Kirby, Miss., cemetery. The U.S. attorney in Mississippi announced that he will review the 1964 killings of Charles Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee. Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company
                                          

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Reckoning in the South Peter Cosgrove/Associated Press - 2005 Juanita Evangeline Moore, right, the daughter of a civil rights pioneer, Harry T. Moore, at a news conference in Orlando, Fla. Attorney General Charlie Crist, in background, has announced that an anonymous tip line will be opened and a reward offered to help the investigation into the 1951 killings of the Moores. Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company
                                  
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