About the authors: Ben Chaney is the director of the James Earl Chaney Foundation, a civil rights organization named for Ben Chaney’s brother, a civil rights activist who was killed in 1964 in Mississippi. Karen Carrillo is a regional editor of Third Force magazine and the deputy editor of City Sun in Brooklyn, New York.
Andre Lamond Jones was an 18-year-old African American teenager scheduled to go to college in the fall of 1992. In August 1992, Andre—the son of Esther Jones-Quinn, president of the Jackson, Mississippi, chapter of the National Association for...
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