45 years after Freedom Summer, Miss. quietly gets rid of laws meant to thwart civil rights

JACKSON, Miss. — While researching a case, attorney Ed Blackmon stumbled across leftovers of Mississippi’s segregationist past — laws enacted to discourage the fight for equal rights for blacks.

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