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Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas, Bob Ray Sanders Column.

By Bob Ray Sanders, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 4--A 16-year-old black girl, brutally raped and murdered in 1955, cries from the grave for justice.

In the past three columns I've told the story of Bennie Faye Lennox, a student at I.M. Terrell High School, whose mutilated body was found July 27, 1955, in a wooded area down the hill from the Butler Place "projects" where she lived.

Her death caused quite a stir in the segregated black community of Fort Worth, as speculation mounted about who could ha