Word: murder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lynch parties are no longer frequent, but the murder of Negroes and civil rights workers continues unchecked. Some examples since 1961: Herbert Lee and Louis Allen, both shot to death near Liberty, Mississippi; four girls, killed in the Birmingham church bombing; Johnny Robinson, a 16-year-old shot by police after the Birmingham bombings; William L. Moore, the white postman murdered near Attala, Alabama; Medgar Evers, assassinated in Mississippi; James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, lynched near Philadelphia, Mississippi; Lemuel A. Penn, the educator slain near Athens, Georgia; the Negro burned to death in Louisiana last fall...
...diminishes my own." I have never known what that phrase means. At any rate, Malcolm's death cannot be understood by this peculiar subtraction, but only through an acquaintance with the violence and the tragedy in Negro life, the reluctant role he accepted and the lashing emotion which his murder evokes in some Negroes...
...nation, the Project publicized the plight of the South. Americans became aware that the Southern Negro wanted to vote and was not being allowed to do so. The murder of three civil-rights workers shocked the country, and people began to understand the nature of the oppression that was being practiced within their national borders...
...example: Arthur Powers, a gambler, was shot to death last Oct. 20; the killers, Terry Lindsay, "Skippy" Martin and "Hank" Hawkins, were known, but "have been sheltered by the police." Moreover, Esther James, the 68-year-old domestic whom Powell had already libeled, was the "finger woman" for the murder...
...Only One." As usual, Powell was less than careful with his facts. Gambler Powers had been killed on the specified date. One Perry-not Terry-Lindsay was arrested a few days later, has been in jail ever since, and is under indictment on a first-degree murder charge. Police have been hunting for Martin and Hawkins for months, but apparently the two men are, like Powell himself, on the lam. As for his latest charge against Esther James, Powell probably would have been hit with another libel suit if he had made it anywhere except on the House floor, where...