Jerry Mitchell
@JMitchellNews
Miss. Center for Investigative Reporting at Mississippi Today. Stories helped put 4 KKK members & serial killer behind bars. Author, Race Against Time.
13-05-2011 21:05:54
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#OnThisDay in 1999, a jury in Belzoni, Mississippi, convicted three men of manslaughter in the April 12, 1970, killing of Rainey Pool, a 54-year-old sharecropper.
When the one-armed man, who had been drinking, happened to enter a “whites-only” bar in Midnight, Mississippi, a mob…