Fight for police reform continues long after death of Elton Hayes
The fight for reform continues today, a half-century after Elton Hayes was beaten to death.
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The fight for reform continues today, a half-century after Elton Hayes was beaten to death.
In October 1971, three Orange Mound teenagers went for a ride that ended with law enforcement officers beating one of them to death in a ditch off Lamar Avenue. Fifty years later, no one has been convicted in the killing.
Fifty years after the death of Elton Hayes, a journey to his grave tells the story of the differences between Black and white in the Memphis of 1971 and the Memphis of today.
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