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Lamar Smith, a 63-year-old black farmer and World War II veteran and organizer of black voter registration was shot to death at close range on the lawn of the Lincoln County courthouse in Brookhaven, Mississippi. Some contemporary reports say there were many white witnesses including the local sheriff who saw a white man covered with blood leaving the scene. No witnesses would come forward and the three men who had been arrested went free. The case was cited in the NAACP ’s pamphlet “M is for Murder and Mississippi” according to author Susan Klopfer SOURCES
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