Jackson / Birmingham / Meadville / Philadelphia / Moores Ford / Atlanta / /
Company
Mississippi Freedom Summer / /
Continent
America / /
Country
United States / /
Event
Judicial Event / Person Communication and Meetings / Person Travel / /
Facility
Winter Institute / University of Mississippi / William Winter Institute / /
IndustryTerm
local law enforcement / law enforcement / /
Organization
District Attorney’s Office / Georgia state legislature / House of Representatives / Department of Justice / University of Mississippi / Southern Truth and Reconciliation / Senate / William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation / Congress / Ku Klux Klan / NAACP / American Society of Trial Consultants / federal government / Winter Institute / Institute for Racial Reconciliation / Moores Ford Memorial Committee / McComb / Mississippi Sovereignty Commission / /
Person
Raymond Bledsoe / Byron de la Beckwith / Emmett Till / Myrlie Evers-Williams / Renee Page / Sam Bowers / Medgar Evers / Brenda Travis / Romano / Billy Roy Pitts / Andrew M. Sheldon / Andrew Goodman / Alvin Sykes / Jerry Mitchell / Henry Hezekiah Dee / James Chaney / Steve Harvey / Rita Schwerner Bender / Edgar Ray Killen / Bobby Cherry / Michael Schwerner / Charles Eddie Moore / Susan M. Glisson / Symposium / Vernon Dahmer / /
Position
local jazz musician / mayor / editor / trial and jury consultant / prosecutor / president / activist / the first full-time chairman / District Attorney / Senator / civil rights leader / investigative reporter / Governor / chairman / Professor / director / Highway patrolman / lieutenant governor / state prosecutor / activist / worker / /
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