Racism: ; Terrible Legacy

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AMERICA'S ugly record of slavery, segregation and lingering racial prejudice still has a grip on the nation's soul.

This week, a bigoted former Ku Klux Klansman and Baptist preacher is on trial in Mississippi for the cruel 1964 execution of three young civil rights volunteers who had gone south to help blacks register to vote. The belated trial is like a ghost of past hatred, still not exorcised.

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Racism: ; Terrible Legacy

Also this week, the HBO channel is showing a superb movie about the dismal social gulf that once separated whites and blacks. It...

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