Meridian Star - Couple readies for inauguration

I think it is important to remember that there are folks out there that will kill for less than registering black folk to vote. In fact, they blew up three little girls, in a church, in an effort to keep black people off public buses.



Meridian Star - Couple readies for inauguration: "But could they have imagined a black man as president?

'I think so ... they always talked about how things were going to be better,' said, Kelly, as he turned to listen to a flight announcement at the Jackson-Evers International Airport, while en route to Baltimore Sunday.

'They just had this hope,' he said, 'It's what drove them.'

Eventually, Ku Klux Klansmen chased down Chaney, Schwerner and civil rights worker Andrew Goodman, killed the young men and buried their bodies in an earthen dam in Mississippi. But not before they rallied black residents to register to vote and to stand up for reform."