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Dredging Up the Past: Why Mississippians Must Tell Our Own Stories

By Donna Ladd

Jackson Free Press | May 31, 2007

As the federal kidnapping trial of alleged klansman James Ford Seale begins, we look at how we got here, how the media gets the story wrong and why Mississippians must tell the full story of past crimes.

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Tags: race relations

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