On November 13th in 1999, a jury in Belzoni, Mississippi, convicted three men of manslaughter in the April 12, 1970, killing of Rainey Pool, a 54-year-old sharecropper.
When the one-armed man, who had been drinking, happened to enter a “whites-only” bar in Midnight, Mississippi, a mob beat him unconscious and threw him into the Sunflower River, where he died.
The killers each received the maximum of 20 years behind bars. mississippitoday.org/2024/11/13/on-…
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Cite this blog:
"The Murder of Rainey Pool, 1970." Historianspeaks, November 27, 2024. https://historianspeaks.org/blog/the-murder-of-rainey-pool-1970.
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