PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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They were found guilty and sentenced to life in prison.
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Mississippi’s state prosecutors refused to press charges for murder.
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They fled the country and lived out the rest of their lives in Mexico.
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They were killed by an angry mob of protestors during their trial.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Price died on May 6, 2001, three days after falling from a lift in an equipment rental store where he was working in Philadelphia, Mississippi. He died in the same hospital in Jackson where, thirty-seven years earlier, he had helped transport the bodies of the three slain civil rights workers for autopsies.
Detailed explanation-2: -Price returned to Philadelphia and worked as a watchmaker in a jewelry store, a market manager and a truck driver. He is survived by his wife, Conner, and a son, Cecil Jr.
Detailed explanation-3: -5 p.m., Sunday, June 21: After driving into Philadelphia, Mississippi, the three civil rights workers were arrested by a Neshoba County Deputy Sheriff named Cecil Price, allegedly for speeding.