| EDITORIAL/June 21, 1964: It’s time for an accounting (May 3, 2000) |
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Friday, January 07, 2005
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| Cole hopes a better future awaits his grandchildren |
Lee Cole, a lifelong member of Mt. Zion United Methodist Church, remains hopeful that his grandchildren will never experience the horrors of a society divided by color.
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Thursday, June 24, 2004
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| ’64 trio inspires Ill. youth |
Three Illinois high school students who made the 1964 civil rights murders here a history project will be in Philadelphia Sunday as part of a community observance.
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Thursday, June 24, 2004
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| Excerpts from Barbour speech |
Excerpts from remarks made by Gov. Haley Barbour on June 20:
It is all together fitting and proper for us to be here today to remember a terribly evil event. I’d say Mississippi is a wonderful place and America is the greatest and best country in the history of the world. Early on, philosophers like Topes (SP?) recognized that American is great because its people endure. American’s greatness results from the people’s goodness and so shall it ever be. Unless we forget, evil things can and do happen in good places and in great countries. To remember that openly and honestly is a deterrent against other future evils. When John Winthrop wrote that the new land for which he was leading his band of devout Christian settlers should be like the Biblical city on a hill, he not only meant it should be a positive earthly example to all around it, he also meant that the community would and should be totally open to observation and scrutiny so that all living in Massachusetts Bay colonies would conduct themselves as if every deed would be seen by their neighbors, friends and foes as well as by Almighty God.
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Thursday, June 24, 2004
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| Student from England notes positive side of movement |
Katherine Cecil may have been raised over a thousand miles from Philadelphia, Mississippi, but she was still able to comprehend the significance of the positive tenor present in Sunday’s activities.
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Thursday, June 24, 2004
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| Great grandson experiences civil rights movement |
Seven-year-old De’Andre Cole stared in amazement at his great-grandfather’s picture displayed on the bulletin board in the front foyer of Mt. Zion United Methodist Church.
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Thursday, June 24, 2004
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| Mississippi transitioning |
I have always believed in my hometown and I have believed deeply in my state, so I was not among those who thought Sunday would never come. To me, it was just a matter of when.
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Thursday, June 24, 2004
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| Neshoba acknowledges '64 murders |
The mother of a civil rights worker murdered here 40 years ago this week said at a commemoration on Sunday she never thought she would be happy to be in Neshoba County.
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Thursday, June 24, 2004
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| Historian sees coalition’s efforts as a model for the state |
Leslie McLemore wants to use the Philadelphia Coalition’s efforts in Neshoba County as a statewide model for racial reconciliation and problem-solving.
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Thursday, June 24, 2004
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| Media crowd City Hall
for press conference |
A throng of media crowded into City Hall to cover the press conference calling for justice in the 1964 civil rights murders.
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Thursday, June 24, 2004
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| Auburn student brings son to experience civil rights event |
Rebecca Woodham brought her eight-year-old son from Brundidge, Ala. to Philadelphia so he could “understand” the sacrifices three young men made half a lifetime before he was ever born.
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Thursday, June 24, 2004
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| Goodman’s brother feels at home in Philadelphia |
David Goodman was 17 when his older brother Andrew was murdered on a dark, dusty Neshoba County roadside.
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Thursday, June 24, 2004
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| Shirley Nichols finds a seat on the back row |
Shirley Nichols arrived almost an hour early for the Mt. Zion commemoration service. But instead of grabbing a seat near the front of the church, she settled into one of the 40 or so green upholstered chairs set up behind the sanctuary’s wooden pews.
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Thursday, June 24, 2004
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| Excerpts from James Young speech |
Excerpts from remarks made by James Young, president of The Neshoba County Boardof Supervisors, on June 20:
I want you know here today that you are looking at a different county, a different set of people. A people who are not ruled by a small, ignorant, evil bunch of people. A people who would not intimidated, not be afraid to speak and recognize that what was done 40 years ago was evil, performed by ignorant men we didn’t know which way to go.
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Thursday, June 24, 2004
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| Excerpts from Dick Molpus Speech |
Excerpts from remarks made by Dick Molpus on June 20:
This is an historic day for a number of reasons. First, we are seeing a remarkable display of unity and connection from the citizens of Philadelphia and Neshoba County. As Dorie Ladner said, I just never thought I would see it. As I looked in the June 2nd edition of the Neshoba Democrat and there’s Jim Prince and Leroy Clemons standing together and Leroy Clemons saying, “it’s time for the sun to shine through the clouds.” I watched with pride as Mayor Rayburn Waddell presented the resolution from the City of Philadelphia and the equally strong resolution passed with the splendid leadership of James Young.
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Thursday, June 24, 2004
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| EDITORIAL/Seeking justice, transforming
Neshoba County’s dark legacy |
“Maybe Philadelphia is about to fashion a new legacy — for itself and for America,” wrote the nationally syndicated columnist William Raspberry in The Washington Post on Monday.
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Thursday, June 24, 2004
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| Justice call ‘reshaping Neshoba legacy’ |
A broad-based group of citizens and community leaders, including state and local elected officials, are to gather at the Neshoba County Coliseum on Sunday for an hour-long program to publicly acknowledge the murders and celebrate the lives of three civil rights workers ambushed here in 1964 by the Ku Klux Klan.
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Thursday, June 24, 2004
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| Economic impact of commemoration noted |
The Board of Supervisors on Monday followed city officials and other leaders who two weeks ago called for justice in the 1964 civil rights murders.
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Thursday, June 24, 2004
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| EDITORIAL/The courage to seek justice |
The extraordinary act of leadership displayed by Philadelphia Mayor Rayburn Waddell, the Community Development Partnership and The Philadelphia Coalition in once and for all calling for justice in the 1964 civil rights murders here is monumental and profound.
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Thursday, June 24, 2004
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| AG eyeing potential witnesses |
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood is personally interviewing potential witnesses in the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers here, he said on Tuesday.
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Thursday, June 24, 2004
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| Feds to aid with ’64 murders |
A broad-based group of citizens, business leaders and elected officials issued a call for justice last week in the 1964 slaying of three civil rights workers in Neshoba County.
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Thursday, June 24, 2004
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| STATEMENT ASKING FOR JUSTICE
IN THE JUNE 21, 1964, MURDERS OF
JAMES CHANEY, ANDREW GOODMAN AND MICHAEL SCHWERNER |
Forty years ago, on June 21, 1964, three young men, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, were murdered in Neshoba County by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
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Thursday, June 24, 2004
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| Community leaders to issue a call
for justice in 1964 civil rights slayings |
Community leaders are expected today to issue a call for justice in the unprosecuted 1964 civil rights murders in Neshoba County.
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Thursday, June 24, 2004
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| Commemorative to include community choir |
A community choir is being organized as part of the 40th anniversary observance commemorating the lives of three civil rights workers murdered here in 1964.
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Thursday, June 24, 2004
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| EDITORIAL/Why stir up the past? |
The reason a broad-based, tri-racial task force is planning the 40th anniversary commemoration of the civil rights murders is because if this community remains silent we can expect others to set the tone and another series of national headlines that read: Nothing’s changed in Mississippi or Neshoba County.
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Thursday, June 24, 2004
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| Task force for 40th progressing |
Appointments to a broad-based, tri-racial task force planning the 40th anniversary commemoration of the 1964 civil rights murders remain open, organizers said
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Thursday, June 24, 2004
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| Task force to plan commemoration |
A task force of city, county and Tribal leaders is being formed to help plan a 40th anniversary commemoration of the 1964 civil rights murders and to study options for an appropriate public memorial.
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Thursday, June 24, 2004
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| Andrew Goodman's mother remembers/A brief history |
On June 21, 1964, three civil rights workers were murdered in Neshoba County.
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Thursday, June 24, 2004
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| Andrew Goodman's mother remembers/About the 1989 interview |
Dr. Carolyn Goodman in 1989 was a practicing psychologist in New York City. She is the mother of slain civil rights worker Andrew Goodman and was here on June 21, 1989, for the 25th anniversary of the murder of her son and James Chaney and Michael Schwerner. Then-Democrat editor Stanley Dearman, who was in New York in April 1989, interviewed Dr. Goodman.
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Thursday, June 24, 2004
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| His whole life led to decision to be
in Miss. in 1964 |
Dearman: I wanted to ask you this: For 25 years, we’ve known just the name Andrew Goodman, just a name. Tell us about Andy, what was he like.
Goodman: Well, Andy’s whole life led up to what he decided to do because he knew about his own personal background. He knew about his roots. He knew about his country. He knew that we were for democracy. He knew what our national purpose was.
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Wednesday, June 23, 2004
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| A mother remembers her slain son |
Andy Goodman was a handsome college man, a great athlete who played the clarinet beautifully and loved the dramatic arts, his mother said.
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Wednesday, June 23, 2004
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