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Crossing Continents: A Small Town in Mississippi

A Small Town in Mississippi

26/11/2009

BBC Radio 4 - Crossing Continents, A Small Town in Mississippi

Investigating the sixth trial of a black man over the murder of four people in Mississippi

Tom Mangold investigates the sixth trial of a black man over the murder of four people in Winona, Mississippi, in 1995.

In 1995, four people were murdered in Winona, Mississippi. The black man charged with their murders is now facing his sixth trial. Racial tensions helped lead to three convictions being overturned and two trials were deadlocked by hung juries. Tom Mangold visits the Deep South to investigate and to speak to those most closely involved. What he discovers says much about whether the high hopes of an increasingly race-neutral America are still justified at the close of the first year of Barack Obama's presidency.

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