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July 27, 2015

Autopsy Underway for Choctaw Activist Found Dead in Miss. Jail Cell 
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A private autopsy is reportedly underway for a Native American activist
who was found dead in a Mississippi jail one day after Sandra Bland was
found dead. Rexdale Henry died five days after he was arrested for
failing to pay a fine. He was being held in the Neshoba County Jail in
Philadelphia, Mississippi, the same jail where three civil rights
activists – James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner – were
held before their murder by the Ku Klux Klan in 1964.

 

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