Bernard Law and the Civil Rights Legacy He Squandered by Covering up Clergy Sex Abuse

By Amy B Wang
Washington Post
December 20, 2017

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/12/20/bernard-law-and-the-civil-rights-legacy-he-squandered-by-covering-up-clergy-sex-abuse/?utm_term=.7be7dbcfcacb

On March 13, 1964, a tiny diocesan newspaper edited by a young Catholic priest with no prior journalism experience laid out the case for racial desegregation in Mississippi.

The editorial in the Mississippi Register, headlined “Legal Segregation is Dying,” was stunning for its controversial position at the time, particularly in a racially charged state at the center of the American civil rights movement. Only months before, a prominent civil rights leader had been shot in the back and killed.