I never knew that there was (the) denial of the right to vote behind a Cotton Curtain here in the United States.
The young civil rights advocate tried to register Black people to vote in Mississippi s rural Amite County where he was beaten and arrested. When he tried to file charges against a white assailant, an all-white jury acquitted the man and a judge provided protection to Moses to the county line so he could leave.
In 1963, he and two other activists â James Travis and Randolph Blackwell â were driving in Greenwood, Mississippi, when someone opened fire on them and the 20-year-old Travis was hit.
John Strop Cornell has died aged 80 following a 20-year battle with Parkinson s disease.
Cornell is best known for discovering Paul Hogan while working as a producer on TV show A Current Affair in 1971, before later becoming the legendary Australian actor s manager.
He and Hogan also produced Crocodile Dundee together in 1986, which remains the most profitable Australian film of all time.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, he died at his home in Byron Bay surrounded by his wife Delvene Delaney, his eldest daughter Melissa, and his youngest daughter Liana on the phone from the UK.
Farewell: Paul Hogan s best mate and longtime manager John Strop Cornell has died aged 80 (pictured together)
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