>>>I am pleased that Mississippi has seen fit to outlaw slavery in Mississippi. How well I remember my days in Mississippi (1963-64), thanks to the Air Force.
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>>>http://brothawolf.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/article-after-148-years-mississippi-finally-ratifies-13th-amendment-which-banned-slavery/
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>>yeah I read about this late last week...and people wonder why Mississippi can't live down it's bad reputation on racial discrimination...ha.
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>>I'm sure things were a bit crazy there in 1963-64
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>One of the guys in my electronics class in the Air Force was from Puerto Rico. The class lasted for forty weeks. He was not allowed in the white or colored sections of Biloxi, Mississippi.
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>The Jefferson Davis house was in nearby Gulf Port. Davis was still considered a hero. Most of the people seemed to be full of hatred. I graduated from tech school and had left the area for the West Coast a few days before the June 21, 1964 event (below link).
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>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_civil_rights_workers'_murders

Took a while but Edgar Ray Killen was finally taken to trial and convicted. Of course he was like 80 years old now. I guess better later than never but geeeze that was like reaaaaaly late.
I think the fact that two of the civil rights works were white caused the national uproar to go into overdrive.