A righteous quest

Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore were black teenagers in Franklin County, Mississippi, in the spring of 1964 when they fell victim to the racist violence then gripping the area. They were beaten by members of the Ku Klux Klan, weighted down, and tossed into the Mississippi River. (Full article: 652 words)

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