District attorneys, many of whom owed their election or appointment to him, felt little pressure to prosecute civil rights murders.
Embracing the new journalism of his Herald Tribune colleagues Tom Wolfe and Jimmy Breslin, he covered events ranging from World Series to civil rights murders.
"We were coming out of a bad time with an enormous riot and civil rights murders in the state.
The case is on a list of unsolved civil rights murders the F.B.I. released in February 2007, the day Mr. Nelson first heard of the story.
Investigators were inspired to reopen the case in 1996, after prosecutors in other states had won convictions in several dated civil rights murders.
After he wrote his first article on the subject in 2007, in which he revealed that the owner of the shoe shop was on the F.B.I.'s list of unsolved civil rights murders, Ms. Williams called.
Family members and members of Congress are urging the federal government to investigate this case, just as it has several other civil rights murders that were committed decades ago but solved only recently.
But absent evidence of intellectual or moral bankruptcy on the part of the jurors, there is no reason to reflexively evoke memories of Simi Valley, Calif., let alone Neshoba County, Miss., in the dark days of civil rights murders.
This is 46 years ago and now people are digging up bones?" Unlike many of the 110 civil rights murders being investigated by both the F.B.I. and journalists who operate under the umbrella group called the Civil Rights Cold Case Project, the story of Mr. Morris's death stands out because it is one of a handful in which someone believed to be connected to the episode is still alive.
Even so, neo-Nazi activists have stepped up their rhetoric in the past few months, mocking victims of far-right murders and threatening politicians, police chiefs, and journalists.
To counter this trend, Neonazi activists stepped up their rhetoric in the past months, mocking victims of far-right murders and threatening politicians, police chiefs and critical journalists.
