Ben Greenberg · @beng
443 followers · 124 posts · Server journa.hostThis is my previous thread on the #CliftonWalker murder distilled as a blog post: https://benlog.net/2023/02/28/racist-murder-of-clifton-walker-could-still-be-solved-after-59-years
#FBI #DOJ #BlackHistory #RacistViolence #ColdCase #histodons #lynching #SouthWestMississippi #murder #KKK #JohnLewis
#cliftonwalker #fbi #DOJ #BlackHistory #racistviolence #coldcase #histodons #lynching #southwestmississippi #murder #kkk #johnlewis
Ben Greenberg · @beng
443 followers · 123 posts · Server journa.host
#OTD Feb 28, 1964, a white mob murdered #CliftonWalker near #Woodville Miss. It may be the 1st shooting of an #AfricanAmerican by the #Mississippi White Knights of the #KKK. At 37, Walker & his wife Ruby had 5 kids: Rubystein, Catherine, Shirley, Clifton Jr & Brenda. #DOJ reopened the case in 2009 & closed it again in 2013, with many leads ignored by the #FBI. #BlackHistory #RacistViolence #ColdCase #histodons #lynching #SouthWestMississippi #murder
🧵on my #investigation: https://journa.host/@beng/109819551364475890
#otd #cliftonwalker #woodville #africanamerican #mississippi #kkk #DOJ #fbi #BlackHistory #racistviolence #coldcase #histodons #lynching #southwestmississippi #murder #Investigation
Ben Greenberg · @beng
421 followers · 18 posts · Server journa.hostToday would be the 96th birthday of #CliftonWalker.
On February 28, 1964, near midnight, on a dirt road in #SouthwestMississippi, a mob of whites ambushed Walker. They stopped his car, gathered around it with shotguns and fired in at close range. It was possibly the first organized #lynching of a Black man by the #Mississippi White Knights of the #KuKluxKlan. No arrests have ever been made. The murder could still be solved.
#BlackHistory #RacistViolence #ColdCase #KKK (1/14) 🧵
#cliftonwalker #southwestmississippi #lynching #mississippi #kukluxklan #BlackHistory #racistviolence #coldcase #kkk