dark_shadows
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Thank you Opie for your post.Opie said:I remember reading about the 3 civil rights workers who were murdered in 1964, but had never heard of this case. It is impossible for me to get a grip on how anyone could hate someone so much for no other reason than skin color. I hope this case is pursued and the perpetrators, no matter how old or decrepit they are now, die in prison.
Hello Alta,Alta said:Thank you for the links Dark Shadows.Its so sad it has taken so many years for an arrest in this case.Thank goodness the family will finally have some justice for their sons.
GlitchWizard said:This happened a lifetime ago - before I was born! I wonder if he did anything wrong in the 40 + years since then.
These probably weren't the only kids that he murdered. It's really pathetic when people have to fear the law as well as the KKK and other prejudiced people living in their area. Can you imagine?julianne said:...He should pay the price---I don't care if he has lived a model life for the last 40 years. There is some bad things that faux goodness just can't erase. He may have made some changes in his life, but he is still the same core person today as he was 4 decades ago. Lock him up & throw away the key!!!!
nanandjim said:These probably weren't the only kids that he murdered. It's really pathetic when people have to fear the law as well as the KKK and other prejudiced people living in their area. Can you imagine?
My ex-husband and I lived in Meridian, MS, in the 1980's, when he was in the military. We attended a party at a clubhouse in a residential neighborhood. There was a nice, black pilot who also attended the party as he was a member of the squadron.
During the course of the party, at least, two white men approached the hosts of the party and told them that if they did not make the black guy leave the Clubhouse immediately that he would end up dead in the lake there. I couldn't believe it! The guy was gracious and said not to worry about it and that he would leave. My husband and I were indignant; and we left, too. How scary and pathetic!
Also, in the 1980's, the gas stations regularly had "Out of Order" signs on their restrooms. They did not want black people to use the restrooms but would like the white people use them. I know this for a fact because I was told so by a worker at one of these places.
I don't know how it is now and have often wondered how much it has changed--or not...
If I recall, I think that Mississippi had these, too.concernedperson said:...as a kid growing up in Louisiana there were two water fountains..one for whites and one for blacks. I am not kidding.
Calling the crime “unspeakable because only monsters could inflict this,” a federal judge on Friday sentenced a former member of the Ku Klux Klan to three life terms in prison for his role in the 1964 kidnapping and murder of two black teenagers in Mississippi...
The victims, Henry H. Dee and Charles E. Moore, both 19, were hitchhiking in Meadville, Miss., when a group of Klansmen, including James Seale, picked them up and took them to a wooded area, where they were beaten and their weighted bodies thrown into the Mississippi River. Both young men drowned.
Their bodies were not recovered until later that year in a high-profile search for three civil rights activists whose deaths generated widespread revulsion against the racial violence in Mississippi.
"This is where we always hitchhiked from,"says Thomas, now a hulking, muscular man of 62... We are standing across Main from Napa Auto Supply, in front of the old Dillon's service station. Thomas says that, in those days, hitchhiking wasn't considered scary; they had to do it to get around...
Mazie passed the hitching spot in front of Dillon's gas station... and saw Charles trying to thumb. He was there with fellow Lillie Bryant alum Henry Dee, a dapper 19-year-old with a James-Brown-esque conk, who had moved to Chicago and was back home visiting.
Mazie had gotten a ride to the doctor and figured she would pick them up when she came back by there. That Saturday was the last time Mazie saw her boy alive...