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Unpunished Killings
This investigation began with the 1989 release of the film "Mississippi Burning" because the author was outraged that so many crimes against civil rights workers went unpunished. Cultivating sources in the now defunct Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, a state segregationist spy agency, the author was able to gain access to sealed documents. These documents led to the reprosecution of Klansman Byron De La Beckwith for the 1963 killing of NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers.
Tags: civil rights; Mississippi; Ku Klux Klan; NAACP; crime; Mississippi Sovereignty Commission; Byron De La Beckwith; Medgar Evers; Hinds County; Sam Bowers; Edgar Ray Killen; Mississippi Department of Archives and History; Billy Roy Pitts; Vernon Dahmer; Deavours Nix; Bobby Cherry; Fred Shuttlesworth; Birmingham Church Bombings; Richard Barrett
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Freedom of Information
As a result of this work, there are two routes a journalist can take to access the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission files that were released in 1998. A journalist can travel to Jackson, Mississippi, and use one of the terminals dedicated for use by pool reporters. Or one can access the files via the World Wide Web.
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Probe (New York) cracks open the files of the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, which from 1964-1968 employed secret-police tactics to crush the civil rights movement, Winter 1990.
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