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Medgar Evers College! Again, for I know. Ready to share new things that are useful. You and your friends.Civil - of or relating to the state or its citizenry;
Rights - something to which one has a just claim;
Civil ownership - the nonpolitical ownership of a citizen.
How is Of possession and Justice Denied
Forty citizen dead...victims of violence
working for civil ownership in America
a relaxation struggle - to be continued.
The Rev. George Lee - May 7, 1955, Belzoni, Mississippi
Lamar Smith - August 13, 1955, Brookhaven, Mississippi
Emmett Louis Till - August 28, 1955, Money, Mississippi
The last, 14 years old
Mississippi - a state of death - murdered all.
John Earl Reese - October 22, 1955, Mayflower, Texas
Age 16 - shot dead
Willie Edwards, Jr. - January 23, 1957, Montgomery, Alabama
Off a bridge
Killed in the name of segregation
Mack Charles Parker - April 25, 1959, Poplarville, Mississippi
Herbert Lee - September 25, 1961, Liberty, Mississippi
Cpl. Roman Ducksworth, Jr. - April 9, 1962, Taylorsville, Mississippi
Paul Guihard - September 30, 1962, Oxford, Mississippi
The carnage prolonged from a collection of killers
Mob, legislator, cop
William Lewis Moore - April 23, 1963, Attalla, Alabama
Killed wishing for liberty and equality
Medgar Evers - June 12, 1963, Jackson, Mississippi
A leader assassinated
Addie Mae Collins and Denise McNair and Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley - September 15, 1963, Birmingham, Alabama
School girls, in church, a bomb
Virgil Lamar Ware - September 15, 1963, Birmingham, Alabama
At age 13, riding a bike
Johnnie Mae Chappell - March 23, 1964, Jacksonville, Florida
Louis Allen - April 7, 1964, Liberty, Mississippi
Fear, ignorance, prejudice...senseless death...
The Rev. Bruce Klunder - April 7, 1964, Cleveland, Ohio
Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore - May 2, 1964, Meadville, Mississippi
Murder most foul
James Earl Chaney and Andrew Goodman and Michael Henry Schwerner - June 21, 1964, Philadelphia, Mississippi
Struggling to help develop ownership - shot dead
Lt. Col. Lemuel Penn - July 11, 1964, Colbert, Georgia
On his way home
Jimmie Lee Jackson - February 26, 1965, Marion, Alabama
The Rev. James Reeb - March 11, 1965, Selma, Alabama
Viola Greg Liuzzo - March 25, 1965, Selma, Alabama
A bloody month in a bloody state
Wars waged on American streets
Oneal Moore - June 2, 1965, Bogalusa, Louisiana
An officer of the law - no matter - he was black
Willie Brewster - July 18, 1965, Anniston, Alabama
Jonathan Myrick Daniels - August 20, 1965, Hayneville, Alabama
Month after month, more dead
Samuel Leamon Younge, Jr. - January 3, 1966, Tuskegee, Alabama
A new year, same old story
Vernon Ferdinand Dahmer - January 10, 1966, Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Ben Chester White - June 10, 1966, Natchez, Mississippi
Clarence Triggs - July 30, 1966, Bogalusa, Louisiana
Brought to remembrance
Three more now dead
Wharlest Jackson - February 27, 1967, Natchez, Mississippi
Benjamin Brown - May 12, 1967, Jackson, Mississippi
Blood running in the streets
Samuel Ephesians Hammond, Jr. And Delano Herman Middleton and Henry Ezekial Smith - February 8, 1968, Orangeburg, South Carolina
On a college campus, blood is shed
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - April 4, 1968, Memphis, Tennessee
Righteous, gifted, peacemaker, holy man
Shot down for his beliefs
Until the killing of a black mother's son
Becomes as foremost as the killing of
A white mother's son,
We who believe in relaxation cannot rest
Recall the word...Amos 5:24
But let justice roll down like waters
And righteousness like a powerful stream.
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