Episode 30 - The Murder of Carol Jenkins

Today is our fourth, and final, episode into civil rights crimes in honor of Black History Month. Yes we know it’s now March, sorry. We decided to cover a case from the civil rights era to close out our coverage. It is the terribly horrific case of the murder of Carol Jenkins in 1968. Here Miss Jenkins travelled door to door selling encyclopedias. That was all it took for a monster, actually monsters, to torment her and kill her. She was a black woman in a sundown town and for the racists residents, thats all it took.  She almost made it to safety, minutes from meeting up with friends she was murdered, out in the open. This case shows the history of sundown towns in this country and their impact on residents even decades later. It shows how, even white people, who helped a black person in one of these towns could be targeted and it shows how justice can still come, no matter how long it takes.  We owe it to Carol to stand up and say no more. To say, we failed you and we wont let it happen again.