Civil Rights violators of the past are finally getting their day in court.

[Tim4319]

It is unfortunate it is coming years after many of the perpetrators have passed on, but some are going to be tried for their wrong-doings of the past. Regardless of their age, I hope they receive the punishment they deserve!



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Schwerner, 24, and Goodman, 20, were volunteers from New York sent to Mississippi. Chaney, 21, was a resident of Meridian, Mississippi, who participated in the voter drive.

Prosecutors say that while the three were sitting in jail, a gang of about 20 Klan members put a plan in motion to kill them. Authorities accused part-time Baptist preacher Edgar Ray Killen of leading the effort.


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Earlier this month in Chicago, Illinois, the FBI exhumed the body of Emmett Till, a black 14-year-old who was kidnapped and mutilated in Mississippi in August 1955.

Two men were tried and acquitted of Till's murder by an all-white jury but later confessed to the crime, which became a rallying point for the early civil rights movement.

The two men are now dead, but the government said it has reason to believe others were involved and hoped evidence might be recovered from an autopsy of Till's body, which was not performed at the time of his killing.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/06/12/miss.killings/index.html

[H2O Man]

1. Unfinished business ......

This has got me hoping that authorities might consider going after those who killed King.

[Tim4319]

2. Especially MLK!

I would love to see the person who killed Martin Luther King, that is if they are still alive, get their day in court.

[H2O Man]

3. Several of those

involved in the conspiracy are in a place where they require a better attorney than the American Bar Association could possibly provide. But many more are still alive, taking great pride in what they did.

[Tim4319]

6. Well, I believe the ultimate judge will deal with those that are no

longer with us. The ones who take great pride in what they, can't run from their conscience. And, if they elude their day in court here on Earth, they too will meet the ultimate judge.

[Kindigger]

4. This old guy in a wheelchair

on the news yesterday....he had a picture of two men. He had been hanging between them, but they cut him down when someone cried he was innocent. He also had a piece of the rope that had been around his neck.

There was a crowd watching, and the reporter asked him if he knew any of the people. He replied that he'd mowed their lawns, washed their cars, and shined their shoes.

It was very sad. :cry:

[Tim4319]

5. That's a downright shame!