On this day in 2003, Ernest Avants was convicted of Cmurders

February 28, 2003

Ernest Avants on his 1967 arrest photo Credit: House UN-American Activities Committee/LSU Cold Case Project

A jury of the US district court in Jackson, Mississippi, condemned Ernest Avants for murder – the first indictment for federal murder, which was associated with the striving for unpunished murders from the era of civil rights.

Avants received a lifelong prison sentence to kill other Klansmen with an African -American craftsman, Ben Chester White, near Natchez, Mississippi. The Klansmen had hoped to lure Martin Luther King Jr., who took part in a march in Mississippi, to the area by killing White. The action failed.

White is one of the 40 martyrs who are listed in the civil rights monument in Montgomery, Alabama.

The stories of the investigative reporter Jerry Mitchell have contributed to bringing four Klansmen and a serial killer behind grids. His stories have also contributed to freeing two people from the death wing, exposing injustices and corruption, causing the investigation and reforms as well as the shots of boards and civil servants. He is a finalist for Pulitzer Prize, long -time member of investigative reporters and editors and winners of more than 30 other national awards, including a scholarship from MacArthur “Genius” of 500,000 US dollars. After Mitchell worked for the nationwide Clarion Ledger for three decades, he left in 2019 and founded the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting.

On this day in 2003, Ernest Avants was convicted of Cmurders

February 28, 2003

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