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electric_blue68

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7. For those who don't know...(I didn't know the town name for a long time)

Reply to TwilightZone (Reply #2)

Fri Mar 5, 2021, 03:23 AM

Mar 2021

I didn't because I was a little too young to have heard about the horrific incident originally - a few years later I heard in general- but not the town's name.

Philadelphia, Mississippi is where the three Civil Rights Activists - Warner, Cheney, and Goodman were murdered an event like Emmett Till's murder rocked the whole nation.

I didn't know till years after Reagan spoke about the connection. Then it made terrible sense.

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