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Susan Klopfer - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Susan Orr-Klopfer, journalist and author, writes and speaks on civil rights in Mississippi. Her newest books, "Where Rebels Roost: Mississippi Civil Rights Revisited" and "The Emmett Till Book" are now in print and are carried in most online bookstores including Amazon and Barnes & Noble. "Where Rebels Roost" focuses on the Delta, Emmett Till, Fannie Lou Hamer, Aaron Henry, Amzie Moore and many other civil rights foot soldiers. Both books emphasize unsolved murders of ... [More]
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- Mississippi Grad Student Seeks Old Research Paper - Sorry He Did Not Have a Copy Machine Back in '94
[News-and-Society] A Mississippi graduate student has a fascinating story to tell. Back in 1994, he was the last person to interview one of Emmett Till's murderers. If only Michael Rosa had owned a tape recorder or copy machine, he wouldn't be trying so hard to remember the details now that he's repeating the assignment.
- Getting Started - Easier Than You Might Think
[Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] My to-do list is full. It is an important list because this is what will help me seriously get to work on my book. To build it, I thought of the obstacles that have been keeping me from getting started.
- Stuck? Write the Title
[Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] Writers block can be serious, especially when a deadline approaches. But help is available on the Internet -- several writers give tips.
- Writers - Expect Heightened Interest in Civil Rights Stories
[Writing-and-Speaking:Writing-Articles] Everyday memories of everyday people, not just the rich and famous, have historical importance. If we do not collect and preserve these stories, then one day they will disappear forever.
- JoAnna Lund's People Skills Live On
[Business:Entrepreneurialism] JoAnna Lund turned a 130-lb weight loss into a successful business, using her own cooking skills. The Iowa farmers wife grew her business by listening to customings and taking their suggestions to heart.
- Fannie Lou Hamer Acted On Her Dreams
[News-and-Society:Politics] Republicans and Democrats in both houses of Congress have pledged to renew the 1965 Voting Rights Act in honor of three women who were heroes in the modern civil rights movement. Fannie Lou Hamer, a Delta sharecropper and orator, is less known outside of Mississippi than Rosa Parks and Coretta Scott King. But Hamer, remembered for her soul-filled singing, was close to the hearts of many who worked around her and admired her unique strengths.
- Black Farmers To Rally; Anger Over Foreclosures, Settlements And More
[News-and-Society:Politics] Black farmers will gather in Washington, D.C., April 26 to voice displeasure over the recent Pigford v. Johanns settlement. But all farmers are being asked to support this rally including Hispanics, Native Americans and women, says a seasoned farming rights activist.
- Spying on Peace Groups Not Surprising Says Civil Rights Vet
[News-and-Society:Politics] As debate intensifies over reports of a secret FBI counterterrorism unit that monitored and infiltrated a Pennsylvania peace group opposing the Iraq invasion, some 60s civil rights movement veterans say they are not surprised – since the same thing happened to them almost 50 years ago.
- A Christmas Boycott That Worked
[News-and-Society:Economics] Dreams of a "white" Christmas were halted by an effective NAACP boycott over forty years ago in the Mississippi Delta.
- Voting Machine Fraud Questioned by 'Ordinary Citizens'
[News-and-Society:Politics] Voting rights issues - fraud and violence - are nothing new in the United States. Recent actions by ordinary citizens, though, make a difference.
- Katrina and Genocide? Looking for Clues in Mississippi's Past
[News-and-Society] Was the lack of preparation and the criminally negligent response by federal agencies to Hurricane Katrina planned genocide? Neighboring Mississippi's troubled civil rights past is considered in response to such assertions.
- FBI Investigated George Lee's Murder; Suspects Never Tried
[News-and-Society] Interviewed by Newsday in 2000, Ernest White, a close friend of the Rev. George Lee's, said that he always suspected that a local handyman and a gravel hauler were involved in Lee's murder that took place in 1955 in Belzoni, Mississippi. Rev. Lee was a voting rights advocate
- Voting Rights Act of 1965: Rev. George Lee Remembered
[Legal] Rev. George Washington Lee, the first black person to register to vote in Mississippi's Humphreys County since Reconstruction, was shot to death on a neighborhood street while driving his car on the night of May 7, 1955. His death helped bring about the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Critical provisions are coming up for reauthorization.
- A Mississippi Murder After Emmett Till
[News-and-Society:Politics] The 1955 murder of young Emmett Till in the Mississippi Delta was followed by the killing of another Delta black and his wife; the killer was a friend of Till's murderers, J. W. Milam and Roy Bryan.
- Dying to Vote in Mississippi, Part III
[News-and-Society:Politics] Birdia Keglar and her friend, Adelina Hamlett, were killed while trying to achieve voting rights for Blacks in Mississippi. Keglar was a business woman and Hamlett had been a teacher. Author Susan Klopfer believes their "cold case" should be considered by the U.S. Department of Justice.
- Dying to Vote in Mississippi, Part II
[News-and-Society:Politics] The untimely deaths of Birdia Keglar and Adeline Hamlet officially resulted from an “auto accident,” even though no investigative reports exist – and most likely never existed. Months earlier, both women were hanged in effigy by local Klansmen and warned not to participate in further voting rights activities. Each had testified before a congressional hearing in support of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The deaths of both women should be considered "cold cases" by the U.S. Justice Department, states Susan Klopfer, author of "Where Rebels Roost, Mississippi Civil Rights Reconsidered."
- Dying to Vote in Mississippi, Part I
[News-and-Society:Politics] Birdia Keglar and Adeline Hamlet of Charleston, Mississippi lost their lives fighting for the right to vote. Their deaths have never been investigated by any law enforcement agency (local or federal) and their story is the focus of this three-part series celebrating the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that soon will be considered for reauthorization.
- Where Two Murderers of Emmett Till 'Spent the Night'
[News-and-Society] Some fifty years ago in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, two of the men who brutally murdered young Chicagoan Emmett Till visited a nearby relative's home shortly afterwards where they spent the night.
- November Reminder: Kennedy Assassination had Mississippi Roots
[News-and-Society] There are many interesting asides to the Mississippi civil rights story but perhaps none quite so compelling (and less known) as this: Seven years before President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, the magnolia state's Sen. James O. Eastland met with Guy Banister, a controversial CIA operative and retired FBI agent in charge of the Chicago bureau who was later linked to Lee Harvey Oswald and Eastland through Eastland's Senate Internal Security Subcommittee or SISS.
- Return to the Land of Emmett Till
[News-and-Society:Politics] SOME THIRTY YEARS after reporting on the Emmett Till case for Ebony magazine, Cloyte Murdock Larsson, a former Ebony staffer, returned to write an article on "The New Mississippi." (Cloyte Murdock Larsson, "Land of the Emmett Till Murder Revisited," Ebony, March 1986.) Larsson and young Till had shared the same birth date.
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