excerpts from “Ex-Klansman Gets 60 Years for 1964 Killings,” by Emily Wagster Pettus, AP, for the Washington Post, June 23, 2005
PHILADELPHIA, Miss. — One-time Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen was sentenced to the maximum 60 years in prison Thursday for masterminding the 1964 slayings of three civil rights workers. Circuit Judge Marcus Gordon […]
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 […]
Check out Dread Scott’s work “Boom” at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. He is part of the exhibit “Recent Acquisitions for an American Museum” showing Nov 6, 2003-Jan 2004. Among other themes, Scott’s work pointedly addresses various forms of violence faced by people of color with searing critiques […]
According to reports, another African American man in Cincinnati has died as a result of an altercation with police, an altercation which was videotaped. Nathaniel Jones, 41 years old, appears to have been beaten by six police officers during a struggle. Jones was being treated by medical personnel, and when he regained consciousness he […]
MERIDIAN, Miss., July 9 “When he overheard a black man complimenting a white woman a couple of years ago on the factory floor, Doug Williams stepped up to the man and, using a racial slur, angrily told him blacks had no business being with blond women, witnesses recalled today.
When a black colleague complained last month […]
Confederacy Backers Say They’ll Never Recognize Tribute
By Michael D. Shear and Peter Whoriskey
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, April 6, 2003; Page C06
RICHMOND, April 5 — The unveiling of an Abraham Lincoln statue today in downtown Richmond, a city his armies once conquered, was heralded as part of an effort to heal old wounds. But the ceremony […]
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YORK, Pa. — Six white men apologized in court for the slaying of a young black woman during a 1969 race riot, but neither their remorse nor their prison terms soothed the grief and outrage of the victim’s kin.
The six — sentenced under state guidelines in effect in the 1960s — were given sentences of […]
YORK, Pa. — Six white men, in court for sentencing in the shooting death of a young black woman during a 1969 race riot, publicly apologized Wednesday. But the victim’s daughter said none had shown remorse to her family in private.
Debra Taylor and other relatives of Lillie Belle Allen urged the judge to impose the […]
YORK, Pa. — A day after he was acquitted of conspiring to murder a young black woman as a police officer during the city’s 1969 race riots, former York Mayor Charlie Robertson stood outside his sea-green clapboard house Sunday and waved to a well-wishing motorist who honked.
“I’m still the mayor to a lot of people,” […]