Picayune Item
Derrick Johnson, president of the Mississippi NAACP, said the organization will ask lawmakers to pass legislation next session establishing a panel to investigate long dormant civil rights cases. Organizers said there were 56 unsolved murder cases from the civil rights era. Coleman wants authorities to pursue more prosecutions in one of the state’s most infamous murder cases — the deaths of Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman, civil rights workers ambushed and killed by the Ku Klu
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Derrick Johnson, president of the Mississippi NAACP, said the organization will ask lawmakers to pass legislation next session establishing a panel to investigate long dormant civil rights cases. Organizers said there were 56 unsolved murder cases from the civil rights era. Coleman wants authorities to pursue more prosecutions in one of the state’s most infamous murder cases — the deaths of Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman, civil rights workers ambushed and killed by the Ku Klu
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