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6月21日，美國密西西比州地方法院判決今年80歲的前三K黨成員埃德加·雷·克林犯有殺人罪，因?yàn)樗?964年6月21日伙同幾名同伴截住三名民權(quán)運(yùn)動工人，一番毆打之后，又極其殘忍地將他們射殺。這標(biāo)志著密西西比州正努力補(bǔ)償其血腥、充滿種族主義仇殺的過去。外電報道如下：Forty-one
years to the day
after three civil rights workers were beaten and
shot to death, an 80-year-old former Ku Klux Klansman was found guilty of
manslaughter Tuesday in a trial that marked Mississippi's latest attempt to atone for
its bloodstained, racist past.
The jury of nine whites and three blacks took less than six hours to
clear Edgar Ray Killen of murder but convict him of the lesser charges in
the 1964 killings that galvanized the struggle for equality and helped
bring about passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Atone表示“賠償，補(bǔ)償，彌補(bǔ)”，如例句：Blood must atone for blood. （血債要用血來償。）
在20世紀(jì)五六十年代，美國民權(quán)運(yùn)動風(fēng)起云涌，其中黑人呼聲最高，要求享有與白人平等的政治權(quán)利，但卻遭到了種族主義者的極端仇視，尤其是三K黨，瘋狂迫害黑人及進(jìn)步工人，在密西西比州更為猖狂。黑人民權(quán)運(yùn)動的杰出領(lǐng)袖馬丁·路德·金就是被白人種族主義者暗殺的。
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