Jackson Free Press | Evolution Of A Man: Lifting The Hood In South Mississippi

Democracy Now reported last night:

[Excerpt] Klansman on Trial For 1964 Killing of Two Black Teenagers

And in Jackson Mississippi, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan is on trial for murdering two black teenagers in 1964. James Ford Seale was first arrested shortly after the killings but the charges were thrown out after the FBI turned the case over to local authorities. The Justice Department reopened the case two years ago. On Tuesday a cousin of Seale named Charles Marcus Edwards testified that he and Seale had abducted and attacked the black teenagers. Edwards said Seale and other Klansmen then drove the teenagers across the Louisiana border. They put duct tape over the mouths of the teenagers and then dumped them into the Mississippi River alive. The victims, Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore, were both 19 years old. Their bodies were found about two months later, when authorities were conducting an intensive search for slain civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman, who disappeared from central Mississippi's Neshoba County on June 21, 1964.

Here is a very good backgrounder from a brave alternative newspaper I discovered a couple years ago during the trial of another former murdering Klansman.

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