“This place was a sanctuary. If anyone wanted to lynch you, you could come here and you’d be safe.”
Read MoreTwo weeks ago, I stood in Onisha Burks Memory Gardens Cemetery, an old graveyard behind the main cemetery in Canton, a central Mississippi city with a large Black population.
Read MoreWhile covering the 1962 riots at the University of Mississippi over James Meredith’s enrollment, Philippe Guihard, a warm, friendly French journalist, became the only reporter killed during the civil rights era.
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