This is why I left Mississippi (*not* that Texas is much better)

Disgraceful.  First they convict an innocent man--a hardworking farmer and a fucking war hero--on trumped up charges of theft because he's black, its 1960, and he was stirring up trouble by trying to integrate Southern Miss.  Then he dies because of poor health acquired in the prison.  And now, even though he was clearly innocent and ought to be given a posthumous award for trying to advance civil rights, they won't pardon his name because he's dead.

Don't ever let anyone try to tell you attitudes in MS are any different than they used to be.