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Neshoba County, Miss., took "one huge step for redemption" Tuesday, said former Mississippi Secretary of State Dick Molpus.
Edgar Ray Killen, a retired sawmill owner and part-time preacher, was convicted of manslaughter for his role in the killings of three young civil rights workers registering black voters. Killen will be sentenced today.See the full content of this document
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Justice , Mississippi Faces Past
The conviction came 41 years, to the day, after Killen organized carloads of fellow Ku Klux Klan members to pursue James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Sc...
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