For civil rights fighters, Derek Chauvin guilty verdict delivers a measure of justice
Updated Apr 20, 2021;
Posted Apr 20, 2021
The Rev. Franklin Hairston-Allen, president of the Greater Harrisburg Area NAACP, expressed thoughts of peace and prayers on the guilty verdict of former police officer Derek Chauvin.Vicki Vellios Briner | Special t
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A jury of 12 on Tuesday delivered something an all-white jury was unable to deliver in 1955 nor seldom after: Justice for a Black man.
For the men who have been fighting for racial and social justice in Harrisburg for decades, the acquittal 66 years ago in the Emmett Till murder has remained a gaping wound in the fight for justice. Three white men acquitted in less than an hour by an all-white jury of the murder of a 14-year-old Black boy in Mississippi.