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Richard Murphy

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Richard Murphy was a poet and white civil rights activist in the 1960s. A graduate of Oberlin College, Murphy moved to Mississippi and worked on the Mississippi Free Press. During a Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee demonstration in Jackson, Mississippi, on February 3, 1964, a policeman struck Murphy with his rifle.

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