About Time

It's decades late, but does provide some closure to a sad, controversial, case next door in Mississippi...

Justice, finally, for Dee and Moore

In May, 1964, two black teenagers and civil rights activists, Charles Moore and Henry Dee, were kidnapped outside Meadville, Mississippi by a gang of thugs, members of a Klu Klux Klan klavern, who beat the two young men senseless in a National forest, then drove across state lines through parts of Louisiana, before dumping them, still alive, into the Mississippi river, weights attached to their bodies to insure that they would drown. Their case formed the basis for the 1988 film, Mississippi Burning, which won an Oscar for Best Cinematography, [...]

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