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With February's announcement of a second attempt by the U.S. Congress to open civil rights cold case files, questions continued to surface over the more recent murder of a Mississippi Delta lawyer and civil rights warrior. Cleve McDowell was killed just ten years ago - an act too recent to be investigated under the pretext of the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act, named after the 14-year-old African American from Chicago who was killed in 1955. Investigation and court records of McDowell's death remain sealed.
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Ten years ago on March 17 friends and family of a Mississippi attorney and civil rights veteran discovered his dead body slumped against a bathroom wall. Cleve McDowell had been shot to death in his own home.

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