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In reply to the discussion: WOW! NY Daily News unbelievably powerful front page following the Zimmerman verdict [View all]happyslug
(14,779 posts)Emmett Till was killed in 1955:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till
Willie Edwards (1957)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Edwards
James Chaney (1964)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Chaney
All of the above are clearly victims during the Civil Rights fights of the 1950s and 1960s, all appear to be victims of the KKK or related groups, no such contact is a factor with Trayvon Martin
Michael Donald (1981) was a victim of the KKK, but after the Civil War Movement had won most of its victories and had lost support from Local Southern Governmental units. James Byrd, like Michael Donald was an attack on an African American by a group of whites (in both the cases of Byrd and Donald it was a group of three). In the case of Byrd all three attackers were convicted of murder. In the case of Michael Donald two of the three attackers were convicted, the third died before trial. Notice neither killing involved am acquittal such as Zimmerman won,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Byrd,_Jr.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Donald
Hawkins and Griffith was New York City Cases involving whites attacking an African Americans by groups of white youths. A factor that was NOT part of the Case of Trayvon Martin.
Yusef Hawkins (1989)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Yusef_Hawkins
Michael Griffith (1986)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Beach_racial_incident_(1986)
Thus none of these cited cases relate to what happen to Trayvon Martin beside that all of the victims were African Americans. Sorry, you need more then that to make a valid comparison.