More Belated Justice in Mississippi

In another effort to get at the truth and deliver justice from some of the crimes of the Jim Crow era, a federal judge on Friday gave former Ku Klux Klansman James Seale to three life sentences for his role in the abduction and murder of Henry H. Dee and Charles E. Moore in Meadville, Mississippi in 1964. The murders were not the subject of a great deal of attention because of the high-profile disappearance of Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner that summer, though it was in the process of searching for the bodies of those three young activists that the bodies of Dee and Moore, who were both 19, were discovered. To provide some perspective on the scale of racial oppression from that era, according to the piece there are still more than one hundred cold cases from the civil rights era that have gone unsolved, including thirty in Mississippi.