Remembering 'freedom summer'

Washington Times ^ | 6/27/2004 | Clarence Page

[foreverfree]

Some people say old unsolved civil rights-era murder cases should be left alone. The quest for long-delayed justice, they say, is not worth reopening those old social wounds. For others among us, those wounds never healed.

Forty years have passed, for example, since "freedom summer," but I still vividly remember the massive project to register black voters in the South. The Constitution had granted African-Americans the right to vote almost 100 years earlier, but that radical notion had not taken hold in the South.

[foreverfree]

The WT remembers three lives for Mississippi.

foreverfree

(who saw Mississippi Burning in the theatre, back when I couldn't tell Hollywood right from Hollywierd left...)

[JulieRNR21]

Let Freedom Reign.....BUMP

Excellent article. This case should be reopened.

[Watery Tart]

There's no statute of limitations on murder. Who is afraid of being embarrassed?