Arrest in 1964 Civil Rights Killings Divides Small Town ; Pursue Justice, Say Some; Leave Past As Is, Others Counter
The Columbian › January 10, 2005
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PHILADELPHIA, Miss. - Wilford Barrett, whose barber shop sits across the street from the county courthouse, thinks the 41-year- old slaying of three civil rights workers should stay where it is: in the past.
"It's been so long ago," he said. "I wouldn't mess with it."See the full content of this document
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Arrest in 1964 Civil Rights Killings Divides Small Town ; Pursue Justice, Say Some; Leave Past As Is, Others Counter
The arrest of former Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen Thursday in one of the most horrific crimes of the civil rights era was for some a satisfying culmination of a long-delayed hunt...
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