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Historic Undertaking

The 2011 reunion of civil rights lawyers held special meaning for Portlander Jacob Tanzer. The reunion focused on the infamous 1964 “Mississippi Burning” case when Ku Klux Klan members murdered civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner on a lonely road in Neshoba County, MS. As grand jury prosecutor, Tanzer started the…