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Melvin D Benward 1954 - 2008

Melvin D Benward of Ocean Springs, Jackson County, MS was born on April 27, 1954, and died at age 54 years old on August 18, 2008.
Melvin D Benward
Ocean Springs, Jackson County, MS 39564
April 27, 1954
August 18, 2008
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  • 04/27
    1954

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    April 27, 1954
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  • 08/18
    2008

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    August 18, 2008
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    Melvin D Benward lived 16 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 54.
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In 1954, in the year that Melvin D Benward was born, on May 17th, the Supreme Court released a decision on Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. The ruling stated that state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students was unconstitutional thus paving the way for integration in schools.
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In 1964, Melvin was just 10 years old when in June, three young civil rights workers - Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner from New York City, and James Chaney from Meridian, Mississippi - were kidnapped and murdered in Mississippi. Working with "Freedom Summer", they were registering African-Americans to vote in the Southern states. Their bodies were found two months later. Although it was discovered that the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the Neshoba County Sheriff's Office and the Philadelphia, Mississippi Police Department were involved, only 7 men were convicted and served less than six years.
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