On this day in 1964, Klansmen abducted and killed Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore.
by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Today May 2, 2023 MAY 2, 1964 Thomas Moore is holding a 1964 photograph of him and his younger brother, Charles, shortly before his brother was kidnapped and killed by Klansmen, along with Henry Hezekiah Dee. Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore, two 19-year-old Black Americans, were simply trying to get a ride back home.
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