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Haley Barbour Doesn't Remember the Civil Rights Era as 'Being That Bad'

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour's recollection of the civil rights era is making some headlines. "I just don't remember it as being that bad," Barbour told the Weekly Standard during an interview for a recent profile. "I remember Martin Luther King came to town, in '62. He spoke out at the old fairground and it was full of...

Opinion: The Unbearable Earnestness of Harry Reid

(Feb. 2) -- Some people simply don't know when to leave well enough alone. Just when the country got over its knee-jerk overreaction to a politically incorrect statement in light of more important news, Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., has decided to give the country another chance to reignite conversation over his bouts with...

Opinion: Reid, Rage and Race

(Jan. 12) -- Conventional wisdom says I should be boiling over in sheer rage. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., had the audacity to say during the 2008 presidential campaign that Barack Obama was a light-skinned African-American "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one." To quote the great...

Civil Rights Hero to Begin Serving Prison Sentence

(Jan. 4) -- Bobby DeLaughter, the prosecutor who secured the conviction in the infamous Medgar Evers Mississippi murder case, is himself now headed to prison. It was DeLaughter's dogged 1994 prosecution and the subsequent conviction of Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith that helped trigger the reopening of dozens of...

FBI Makes Plea in Civil-Rights Cold Cases

(Nov. 19) -- Many decades later, the FBI still holds out hope of solving dozens of unsolved racially motivated civil rights-era murders. On Wednesday at Southern University in Baton Rouge, La., FBI Civil Rights Unit Chief Cynthia Deitle announced that the agency was looking for help locating next of kin in 33 cold cases,...

Background on civil rights era

The African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968) refers to the social movements in the United States aimed at outlawing racial discrimination against African Americans and restoring voting rights to them.

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