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It is also a bad source, as it does not get the disappearance date right.2601:447:4101:41F9:E1D8:409F:EB2F:6C41 (talk) 19:51, 23 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I reverted (undid) your change. Somehow two sources got combined. The fact is on pages 424–425 of the book The Reader's Companion to American History: "Although their badly beaten bodies were not discovered for six weeks, certainty that they had been murdered swept the country and helped precipitate the passage of a long-pending civil rights bill in Congress." The History.com page had nothing to do with the book. I don't know why it was part of the footnote. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 03:21, 24 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That source may be reliable, but I can't find that particular statement in it. Even if it were there, it can't possibly be correct that the murders helped ensure the passage of the Civil Rights Act, which had already passed both houses of Congress and had the public support of LBJ by the time the men disappeared, as detailed on the Wiki for that Act. Its enactment was a foregone conclusion. The murders might have rallied public support behind the Voting Rights Act of 1965 the next year, but simply from a temporal standpoint, it couldn't have affected the CRA of '64. Niremetal (talk) 08:22, 5 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Entire Mississippi Congressional delegation voted against 25th anniversary resolution? Under the section "Further research and 2005 murder trial" it says "Senator Trent Lott and the rest of the Mississippi delegation refused to vote for it." I would be very surprised if Mike Espy voted against the 1988 resolution. And very likely he was a cosponsor, if not a sponsor. Source is a 2007 Jackson Free Press article that doesn't even mention Espy. JEByron (talk) 16:15, 2 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]