Ben GreenbergFeb 28, 2023
#OTD Feb 28, 1964, a white mob murdered #CliftonWalker near #Woodville Miss. It may be the 1st shooting of an #AfricanAmerican by the #Mississippi White Knights of the #KKK. At 37, Walker & his wife Ruby had 5 kids: Rubystein, Catherine, Shirley, Clifton Jr & Brenda. #DOJ reopened the case in 2009 & closed it again in 2013, with many leads ignored by the #FBI. #BlackHistory #RacistViolence #ColdCase #histodons #lynching #SouthWestMississippi #murder
🧵on my #investigation: https://journa.host/@beng/109819551364475890
Ben Greenberg (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Today would be the 96th birthday of #CliftonWalker. On February 28, 1964, near midnight, on a dirt road in #SouthwestMississippi, a mob of whites ambushed Walker. They stopped his car, gathered around it with shotguns and fired in at close range. It was possibly the first organized #lynching of a Black man by the #Mississippi White Knights of the #KuKluxKlan. No arrests have ever been made. The murder could still be solved. #BlackHistory #RacistViolence #ColdCase #KKK #histodons (1/14) 🧵

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This is my previous thread on the #CliftonWalker murder distilled as a blog post: https://benlog.net/2023/02/28/racist-murder-of-clifton-walker-could-still-be-solved-after-59-years

#FBI #DOJ #BlackHistory #RacistViolence #ColdCase #histodons #lynching #SouthWestMississippi #murder #KKK #JohnLewis

Racist Murder of Clifton Walker Could Still Be Solved after 59 Years - benlog

Near midnight on February 28, 1964, a mob of whites ambushed Clifton Earl Walker, Jr. on a dirt road in Southwest Mississippi. They stopped his car,

Feb 28, 2023 at 6:29pmWeb