Archive for January, 2005

Killen Charged in Chaney, Goodman, Schwerner Murders

Saturday, January 8th, 2005

excerpts from First Murder Charge in ‘64 Civil Rights Killings of 3 by Robert D. McFadden, NYTimes, 1/7/05, p.A1
Edgar Ray Killen, a 79-year-old preacher and longtime leader of the Ku Klux Klan, who, investigators say, organized and led two carloads of Klansmen on the night of the killings in 1964, was arrested at his home […]

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Segregation in Practice

Saturday, January 8th, 2005

excerpts from Judge Says HUD Erred on Public Housing by Gary Gately, NYTimes, 1/7/05, p. A20
Black public housing tenants have been systematically consigned to segregated, poor neighborhoods of Baltimore City as a result of the policies of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, a federal judge concluded on Thursday. By not placing […]

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