Pardon Unlikely for Civil Rights Advocate
Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi acknowledges that Clyde
Kennard suffered a grievous wrong at the hands of state
officials more than 45 years ago. But he says he will not
grant a posthumous pardon to Mr. Kennard, a black man who was
falsely imprisoned after trying to desegregate a Mississippi
college.
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Mr. Kennard moved home to Hattiesburg, Miss., after seven years in the Army in Germany and Korea and three years as an undergraduate at the University of Chicago. He wanted to finish his education at the local college.