The Mississippi Hangings

Unresolved

Unresolved Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In October of 1990, a man named David Scott Campbell was arrested in Philadelphia, Mississippi... the same city where, 30 years prior, three civil rights workers had been abducted and murdered by members of the KKK. On his first night in prison - which, coincidentally, was also his 21st birthday - Campbell took his own life.

Two years later, in August of 1992, a young man from Jackson, MS met a same fate. Andre Jones, the eighteen-year-old son of a NAACP chapter president and a Nation of Islam minister, was arrested and transferred to a neighboring county. There, he also met his unfortunate end.

These two young men were just endemic of a larger problem plaguing Mississippi jails and prisons over a six-year period, from 1987 to 1993. During that time span, an unusually-high number of inmates/prisoners ended up taking their own lives... and the cause is still unknown.

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Gallery Six - "Hydroscope"

ROZKOL - "Redrick's Lament"

Ryan Little - "Summer Dreams"

Kai Engel - "Soli"

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Magna Ingress - "The Glow"

Organoid - "Cassini"

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Ailsa Traves - "Unresolved"

Transcript

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0:00.0	David Scott Campbell was born on October 9, 1969.
0:16.1	Growing up, Scott, as he was known, learned a lot about racial tension.
0:20.9	He lived in Philadelphia, Mississippi, a small town in Nishoba County.
0:25.4	Philadelphia is probably most well known for a 1964 incident, in which three civil rights
0:31.1	workers were abducted and killed by white knights of the local KKK chapter, with cooperation
0:37.2	from local law enforcement.
0:39.2	That violent incident, which would later inspire the award-winning movie Mississippi
0:43.5	Burning, loomed large over the area that Scott grew up in as a young black man from rural
0:49.1	Mississippi.
0:50.5	Family and friends of Scott would be the first to tell you that he was not a saint.
0:54.6	He was a flawed young man, who dropped out of high school and got into some legal troubles
0:58.6	during his teenage years.
1:00.4	Yet one child out of wedlock, with a young lady named Barbara, but was working hard
1:04.9	to provide for his child and his own future, as both a seasonal construction worker and
1:09.9	an employee of an offshore oil refinery.
1:13.2	Scott also had a bit of a reputation for being a ladies man.
1:16.9	This characteristic played a large part in Scott's story, and it seems his unfortunate conclusion.
1:23.0	On October 9th, 1990, Scott was celebrating his 21st birthday in the town of Philadelphia,
1:29.5	Mississippi.
1:30.6	This was the same town where less than 30 years beforehand, three civil rights workers
1:35.8	had been abducted and violently murdered by racist, who were, in turn, aided and abetted
1:42.1	by local police officers.
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