Susan Klopfer's Blog – September 2009 Archive (11)

Site where a service station was stood in Glendora, Mississippi. Clinton Melton, a black service station attendant and family man who was not part of the civil rights movement, was killed while working there, a month after the Milam/Bryant trial in nearby Sumner. Melton was shot to death by a friend of Milam's who was drunk and angry at the time. Melton's wife, Beulah, died when she reportedly drove her car off the road into a bayou. She had been… Continue

Okay, I know some people will be offended. Sorry. But this should get me some traffic. :>)

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I really like putting up blogs with blogger and have been experimenting with adding spanish subtitles. I've noticed it gets me up higher in google search. Here's an example, my Civil Rights Books blog -- MOVIMIENTO DE DERECHOS CIVILES LIBROS...



Civil Rights Books



When I searched google for civil rights books, this blog came up in seventh position. And when I google MOVIMIENTO DE DERECHOS CIVILES LIBROS it…

iPhone shot from rural Ecuador .. from a story on South American elections. (Photo by Susan Klopfer)



If your marketing plan includes playing the role of citizen journalist, here are some iPhone apps I've recently discovered that speed up finding stories, checking facts and getting stuff uploaded. (This list plus additional commentary will be appearing in an upcoming iPhone publication.) Try a few and let me know what you think. I would… Continue

Just had a lengthy interview with SCM and article should come out Wednesday. Because I've been blogging my book, Who Killed Emmett Till, the reporter called on a story she's writing about civil rights education in Mississippi. The interview lasted about an hour and I was able to give her lots of history and background. Fingers are crossed!





Meanwhile, post 16 is up.

Mississippi Delta civil rights leader,… Continue

A small lake outside of Greenville, Mississippi. Photo by Susan Klopfer.



THROUGHOUT HER LIFE, Emmett Till’s mother, carried a frightening story close to her heart – a story she often replayed in her mind. She didn’t have to own the story, since her family had left Mississippi and its inherent meanness when she was just a baby – like many black Mississippians, they moved to Argo, on the outskirts of Chicago, to escape the misery of… Continue

Land of King Cotton ...



Late August in the Mississippi Delta is cruel. I know this is true because I lived there two summers — on the grounds of Parchman Penitentiary, just a few short miles from the site when Emmett Till was murdered.



Mid-nineties is common and typically it is so hot and humid that if you’ve been sitting a while and stand up, your backside sticks to your clothes, even if they're made of cotton.… Continue

Mississippi Delta Blues musicians mural painted on the outside of a Clarksdale, Tahoma County building.



It was Wednesday, August 31, 1955 and Dr. T.R.M. Howard, a wealthy black leader in Mississippi – a man of great influence – was leaving Chicago where he had been doing organizing work for the Regional Council of Negro Leadership, a society he founded to promote a program of civil rights, self-help, and business… Continue

Belzoni, Miss. courthouse where Rev. George Lee, a popular voting rights advocate, was killed May 7, 1954, less than four months before Emmett Till was murdered in nearby Sunflower County. Photograph by Susan Klopfer.



Post 12 of a free blog book, Who Killed Emmett Till



JUST SEVERAL MONTHS after the violent May 7, 1954 murder of Rev. George Lee, a popular Delta minister and voting rights advocate, a Boy Scout… Continue

Nice to see this story picked up by an online journalist http://is.gd/2MeqZ



She has written about the killing of Emmett Till 54 years ago in the Mississippi Delta and about the mess that is going on today.



I'm also hearing that the old bloke prosecutor who allegedly was involved in this incident last week is shaking in his boots now that the FBI and DOJ have landed. Apparently, Rep. Bennie Thompson made a swing through… Continue

Family members celebrate the recent naming of a highway section for Birdia Keglar, a Tallahatchie civil rights activist who died in 1965 after her car was run off the road on her way home from a civil rights event in Jackson, Miss. Keglar had been targeted by Klansmen in the region for her frequent voting rights activities. The FBI has recently been investigating this cold case. Tallahatchie County has been known for Klan activities and… Continue