Mayor
Jackson not involved with Hinds County pauper’s field bodies
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Google-News-Wire
- January 14, 2024
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- tag:Al Sharpton
- tag:Benjamin Crump
- tag:Chokwe Antar Lumumba
- tag:Civil Rights
- tag:Crime & Justice
- tag:Death & Tragedy
- tag:Government
- tag:Graves
- tag:Hinds County
- tag:Jackson
- tag:Jackson Police Department (Mississippi)
- tag:Local Government
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- tag:Mayor's Office
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- tag:Mississippi Civil Rights Museum
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To associate the City of Jackson with national reports of 215 people who were buried in a pauper’s field behind the Hinds County Penal Farm is “misinformation” and “dangerous,” said Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba. Lumumba made the comments Saturday at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum during a meeting of the Jackson People’s Assembly to […]
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