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This killing affected me deeply, even though I was a kid myself at the time. I was just a year younger than Emmett Till, a white girl growing up in the relatively safe area of Madison, Wisconsin, three hours north of Chicago, but my parents were liberal Democrats and our newspaper, then owned by a man who'd been a contemporary and friend of "Fighting Bob" LaFollete, splashed all of the story on the front pages. I thought Emmett's mother was incredibly brave, and I simply could not understand the whole ethos of Mississippi, then or now. I think that was the beginning of my awareness that things were not right in this country, even though my parents had been active in the anti-McCarthy movement several years previously.

These records should have been released a LONG time ago. I'm quite sure that J Edgar Hoover (Hi, Johnny, say hello to your new buddy Jim Dobson down there, won't you, while you're both roasting in Hell!) would NEVER, since he was such a self-hater. No idea why subsequent FBI directors wouldn't.