Friday, January 07, 2005

They still haven't caught the bastards.

Have you ever registered someone to vote?

Think about this then. They are still trying to figure out who killed three young activists for registering Black voters in Mississippi in 1964.

As you might have heard from news reports, Mississippi has just reopened a case from the Civil Rights era. Three young men, ages 20, 21, and 24, were in Mississippi as voting rights workers when they were murdered and their bodies dumped in a river.

Their murder has remained unsolved, and now after 41 years a local former Klan leader has been arrested and charged. The police are promising more arrests as well.

It's amazing how recently people were being killed over voter registration.

-- Scott Nelson

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