Stanley Nelson to discuss the 1964 abduction and killing of 24-year-old Joseph “Joe-Ed” Edwards by the Klan
Joseph “Joe-Ed” Edwards(Click on image to enlarge.)“More than 100-plus unsolved Civil Rights-era murders
were reinvestigated by the FBI and Justice Department beginning in 2007,
including the disappearance of Joseph Edwards and the murders of Black men…
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| Joseph "Joe-Ed" Edwards (Click on image to enlarge.) |
“More than 100-plus unsolved Civil Rights-era murders
were reinvestigated by the FBI and Justice Department beginning in 2007,
including the disappearance of Joseph Edwards and the murders of Black men from
Concordia Parish, LA, and Adams, Franklin and Wilkinson counties in
Mississippi. Edwards’ case is the only one in which the body has never been
found.”
Stanley Nelson, former editor of Concordia Sentinel and
author of Devil’s Walking (LSU Press, 2016), will talk about the unsolved local
civil rights murder of Joseph “Joe-Ed” Edwards at a special program at 6 p.m.
Thursday, Aug. 29, at the Historic Natchez Foundation at 108 South Commerce St., Natchez. “We are still
looking for him,” Nelson said of Edwards.
Nelson’s presentation is titled, “ Remembering Joseph ‘Joe-Ed’
Edwards: Missing Since Freedom Summer 1964.” It is free and open to the public.
The event is part of commemorative activities around the
60th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964. It is offered
by the Natchez National Historical Park and the Historic Natchez Foundation.
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| Stanley Nelson (Click on image to enlarge.) |
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