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Ed King, 89, Scarred Veteran of Mississippi’s Civil Rights Struggle, Dies

A minister disfigured in an attack on his life, he became what one historian called “the most visible white activist in the Mississippi movement.”

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Ed King in 1970 speaking at a memorial service for James Earl Green, one of the two students killed during a shooting at Jackson State College that May.
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