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Confederate Reckoning: Philadelphia, MS, tries to overcome racist past


6:36 pm UTC Jul. 15, 2021
This story is part of Confederate Reckoning, a collaborative project of USA TODAY Network newsrooms across the South to critically examine the legacy of the Confederacy, Reconstruction and the Jim Crow era and their influence on communities today.
PHILADELPHIA, MS   The killings echo through time.
They echo through the loblolly pines and red clay backwoods along Rock Cut Road where three men were executed by the Ku Klux Klan.
They echo past magnolia blossoms on Main Street, past the white Italian marble confederate soldier statue which remains today
outside the courthouse where a killer was finally convicted.  ....

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