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Smith's murder was one of several racially motivated attacks in Mississippi in 1955. The other incidents included the murder of George W. Lee, a civil rights leader in Belzoni (May), the killing of Emmett Till, a black teenager visiting from Chicago (August), and the shooting of Gus Courts (December), a civil rights associate of Lee in Belzoni.
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On June 21, 1964, three Civil Rights Movement activists, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, were murdered by local members of the Ku Klux Klan.They had been arrested earlier in the day for speeding, and after being released were followed by local law enforcement & others, all affiliated with the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. [1]
An argument that escalated into a shooting injured four people in the Bricktown area of Downtown Oklahoma City. [124] October 4: Redding: California: 2 3 5: Two men were killed and three others were injured in a shooting at a shopping center overnight in the Westwood neighborhood. [125] September 29: Houston (5) Texas: 0 4 4
US marshals on Tuesday arrested a 25-year-old man in connection with Sunday’s mass shooting in Cleveland that left nine people wounded, Cleveland’s police chief said.
Three people were killed and eight others injured by gunfire at a party to celebrate a local school’s football victory at a trail in Mississippi early Saturday, according to the local sheriff.
Camp Shelby is a military post whose South Gate is located at the southern boundary of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on U.S. Highway 49. It is the largest state-owned training site in the nation. During wartime, the camp's mission is to serve as a major independent mobilization station of the United States Army Forces Command (FORSCOM).
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