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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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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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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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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
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- 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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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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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.
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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
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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
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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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