On the night of April 9, 1962, Roman Ducksworth Jr., a 27-year-old African-American male, was traveling home to Taylorsville, Mississippi. A corporal in the military police stationed in Maryland, he had been granted emergency leave to be with his wife, who was experiencing complications while giving birth to their sixth child. Exhausted from the long journey, he fell asleep on the final leg of his bus trip. When the bus arrived in Taylorsville, the driver was unable to wake him and called for th
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