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ABC News' Martha Raddatz sits down with filmmaker Stanley Nelson on his new PBS documentary "Freedom Summer."
Kent College History's insight:
Freedom Summer 1964, including the story of Goodman, Chaney and Schwerner.
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A memorial sign marking the place where Emmett Till's mutilated body was discovered in a Mississippi river in 1955 is riddled with bullet holes — and has been routinely vandalized since it went up in 2007.
Kent College History's insight:
'A memorial sign marking the place where Emmett Till's mutilated body was discovered in a Mississippi river in 1955 is riddled with bullet holes — and has been routinely vandalized since it went up in 2007.'
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Mississippi NAACP president says discovery of noose and pre-2003 Georgia state flag on Sunday is ‘a racial hate crime’
Kent College History's insight:
A Guardian report from 18 February 2014.
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'In “Race Against Time,” Jerry Mitchell chronicles belated efforts — many of them spurred by his own work as a journalist — to prosecute perpetrators of racially motivated violence in Alabama and Mississippi during the 1960s. Beginning in the 1980s, as a reporter for the Jackson, Miss., Clarion-Ledger, Mitchell decided to reinvestigate unsolved civil-rights-era murder cases, pursuing old leads, uncovering new evidence and publishing article after article after article. His journalistic coups revealed an uncanny ability to wheedle incriminating remarks from defensive suspects and damning observations from unfriendly witnesses.'