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Prosecutors Reopen Civil Rights Case

Alabama indicts ex-state trooper in 1965 murder

By Greg Atwan,  Newser User

Posted May 11, 2007 4:39 PM CDT

(Newser) – Alabama prosecutors have reopened a decades-old murder case that helped spark the seminal Selma-to-Montgomery civil rights march and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. James Bonard Fowler, 73, a former state trooper, turned himself in yesterday after being indicted the 1965 murder of Jimmie Lee...   Read full story »

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