“More than 100-plus unsolved Civil Rights-era murders were reinvestigated by the FBI and Justice Department beginning in 2007, including the disappearance of Joseph Edwards and the murders of Black men from Concordia Parish, LA, and Adams, Franklin and Wilkinson counties in Mississippi. Edwards’ case is the only one in which the body has never been found.”

Stanley Nelson, former editor of Concordia Sentinel and author of Devil’s Walking (LSU Press, 2016), will talk about the unsolved local civil rights murder of Joseph “Joe-Ed” Edwards at a special program at 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 29, at the Historic Natchez Foundation at  108 South Commerce St., Natchez. “We are still looking for him,” Nelson said of Edwards.

Nelson’s presentation is titled, “ Remembering Joseph ‘Joe-Ed’ Edwards: Missing Since Freedom Summer 1964.” It is free and open to the public.

The event is part of commemorative activities around the 60th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964. It is offered by the Natchez National Historical Park and the Historic Natchez Foundation.