Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, State Government Funded Racist Department: New York Pathologist was "horrified" at what happened to James Chaney

Monday, June 20, 2005

New York Pathologist was "horrified" at what happened to James Chaney

Sovereignty Commission Online

Pathologist David Spain took the risk of coming into Mississippi to examine James Chaney's body. It did not take long for Sovereignty Commission invetigators to "check him out." Here's their first report ..

Then a Jackson pathologist, Dr. Bill Featherston, asked the Sovereignty Commission to file a breach of ethics charge against Dr. Spain (for seeking the truth?).

But even the Catholics were against Mississippi!

Will any of Dr. Spain's observations be used in the trial of Preacher Killen? One has to wonder. Dr. Spain's report, regardless, is a Must Read.

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On Wikipedia: ” The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission was a state agency directed by the governor of Mississippi that existed from 1956 to 1977. The commission's stated objective was to "[...] protect the sovereignty of the state of Mississippi, and her sister states" from "federal encroachment." Initially, it was formed to coordinate activities to portray the state, and the legal racial segregation enforced by the state, in a more positive light.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_State_Sovereignty_Commission Facts About Mississippi Sovereignty Commission: Some facts about the now-defunct Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, whose files were opened to the public Tuesday. FOUNDED: Created by legislative act in 1956, two years after the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education outlawed segregated schools. MISSION: The Legislature created the commission to "protect the sovereignty of the State of Mississippi and her sister states" from federal government interference. In practice, it worked to preserve a segregated society and to oppose school integration. In secret, the commission harassed and spied on activists, branding many of them racial agitators and communist infiltrators. http://www.mdcbowen.org/p2/bh/badco/missSov.htm MDAH Digital Collection: Sovereignty Commission Online http://mdah.state.ms.us/arrec/digital_archives/sovcom/ The Berkeley Free Speech Movement and the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission by Jo Freeman (2001): “On Thursday, August 18, 1966 I entered the Bellflower Church in Grenada, Mississippi, which the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was using as its headquarters for a voter registration project. I had been a fieldworker for SCLC for over a year but in Mississippi only since June.” http://www.uic.edu/orgs/cwluherstory/jofreeman/sixtiesprotest/FSMMiss.htm