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Bookmark or Share- ‘Think They Got Killed?’ 1964, L.B.J. and Three Civil Rights IconsFifty years ago this week, three young civil rights activists — Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman — vanished in Neshoba County, Miss.
- Ex-Sen. James Eastland, Political Patriarch, DiesA spokeswoman for Greenwood-LeFlore County Hospital said Eastland died just after 4 a.m. of “multiple medical problems, complicated at the end by pneumonia.”
- James Eastland - WikipediaEastland practiced law in Sunflower County, Mississippi, and took over management of his family's cotton plantation. Becoming active in politics as a Democrat, he served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1928 to 1932.
- JAMES O. EASTLAND IS DEAD AT 81; LEADING SENATE FOE OF INTEGRATIONHe was a severe critic of President Johnson's Great Society programs of the middle 1960's. 'End of an Era in Mississippi'. In some of his years in the Senate, his chief press spokesman was Larry ...
- Sen. James O. Eastland, the segregationist Joe Biden touted work with ...Fifty-five years ago Friday, three civil rights workers — James Chaney, 21, Andrew Goodman, 24, and Michael Schwerner, 20 — went missing in Mississippi. Earlier that night, they had been ...
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