(CNN) — 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 civil rights cold [...]

Klan Power!
by Duane on April 19th, 2010 at 4:05 amFull article
I’ve said it before and I am gonna keep saying it. The Klan is nowhere near the threat it was to the average person on their hit list (Blacks, Jews, Hispanics, Catholics, Gays, etc.) 40+ years ago. Yet it never fails: a few of them show up to demonstrate, hundreds show up to counter [...]