Tally Back Then: A FAMU student’s bright spirit extinguished in Mississippi

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) – A Florida A&M student with his whole life ahead of him ventured to Mississippi in 1967 to help register African Americans to vote. He’d never return to Tallahassee alive. This week’s Tally Back Then tells the tragic story of George ‘Calvin’ Bess, Jr….

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