One-time Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen was sentenced to the maximum 60 years in prison for masterminding the 1964 slayings of three civil rights workers, an event that galvanized the fight for racial equality in the Deep South., according to the AP. Looks like justice was done in Mississippi.
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George Wallace Jr. Gives Major Speech to Hate Group
Editor’s Note: We understand the Associated Press is now working on a story about this. For the record, you heard it here first, since we had it first. MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama Public Service Commissioner George C. Wallace Jr., whose father famously vowed to defend racial segregation “forever” in a 1963 speech from the steps…
