Editor who pushed for justice in civil rights killings dies
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Mississippi editor Stanley Dearman, who pushed for justice in the murders of three civil rights workers, died on Saturday in Florida. The death of the 84-year-old was announced by the newspaper in Philadelphia, Mississippi, that he once published.
Dearman wrote articles and editorials in The Neshoba Democrat that helped lead to conviction of a former Klansman in the 1964 killings.
The civil rights workers — Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner — disappeared on June 21, 1964. They were found dead 44 days later.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Federal prosecutors convicted seven people of civil rights violations in 1967, but Dearman and others pushed for further prosecutions.
Edgar Ray Killen was convicted of manslaughter in 2005 by a state court jury and remains imprisoned.
Dearman's funeral and burial will be Tuesday in Philadelphia.