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On this day in 1946, a Holmes County, Mississippi, court freed five white men charged with killing a Black man named Leon McAtee, even though one of the defendants had confessed to his own involvement in the murder and implicated the other four men.
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Oct. 22, 1946 | Five White Men Freed in Mississippi Lynching Case, Despite Confession
Equal Justice Initiative
