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UPDATE: Kennedy's civil rights work remembered
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Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass
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JACKSON — Sen. Edward Kennedy is being remembered by some Mississippians for his work to defend civil rights.

Charles Evers, a longtime civil rights activist in Mississippi, said "American has lost one giant." Kennedy died Tuesday of brain cancer. He was 77.

Evers said he took Kennedy on tours of poverty-stricken areas of the state in the 1970s and 1980s. He said Kennedy told him he would work to improve those conditions.

Another civil rights activist, Lawrence Guyot, said when the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was up for its first extension, activists turned to Kennedy to help lead the fight.
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jackbaddawg
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August 27, 2009
He should be remembered most for being drunk & driving off a bridge & leaving a woman to die in the cold water trapped inside his car & not reporting it for 10 hrs, after he could sober-up a little. He should have spent 30 years in the pen instead of the Senate. ( Back then money could get you out of anything )
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Woolhat
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August 26, 2009
Kind of ironic, isn't it? Edward, the black sheep of the family, had the most lasting impact. Joe, the Chosen One died at the hands of the Nazis; Joh, the charismatic one, died by the hand of a Marxist before he'd had time to do anything more than raise expectations (and trigger an economic boom by lowering taxes); Robert, the honest one with guts enough to stand up to not only the KKK, but to the mob, (also the one faithful to marriage vows) was taken out by a Palestinian nationalist. But Edward had the most impact by virtue of longevity...and the fact that fate seems blind to virtue when the Oldsmobile is upside down in the water.

77 years, and never held a real job. Ain't America a wonderful place?

May he rest in peace, and God have mercy on us all.
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