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CIVIL RIGHTS SCRAPBOOKS MISSISSIPPI EVENTS 3.10 VOLUME III PAGE 1 THROUGH PAGE 47 Memphis to Jackson march; Philadelphia slayings reopened by Justice Department; eighteen charged with slayings; seven found guilty. /V<t^ XMT^*^- '7^. Led By Meredith— Why so^quiet / 6,000 Conclude MarctMifAf^ally .lACKSON. Miss., June 26 i/pw-fhousands of flag waving Ne­ about noting, groes ended the maratnon Mis.sissippi civil rights marrh today with a surprisingly subdued rally behind the heavily guarded state capitol. u i ,i The imposing limestone structure was ringed hy police and National Cuardsmen as the righters asked march leaders spoke, braced to .NAA( r Ousted throw back any attempt to reach The rally, he added, would lot News Washington staff the capitol itself. The rally was Gov. Paul B .lohnson and orderly. President .lohnson know that WASHINGTON. July 21 — Rep. Thomas C, Officers estimated Ifi.nm "we are not going to let it Abernethy. D-Miss., said Wednesday in a House speech Negroes, with a few hundrec: (white supremacy) live on. be­ that when .lames Meredith was wounded "by a whites among them, flowed ing blamed on a few whites in light-minded citizen from Memphis, Tenn.." the White through Ihe streets to pack a Mi.s.sissippi." Great attention has IxM-n giv­ House made available a plane to transport a group of portion of the capitol grounds and adjacent ar(*as. en to dissension in the CIN il congressmen to Mississippi to investigate. They were led hy .Tamers H rights leaders, he said, but the 1 Meredith, Ihe slender, intense true issue is that "exery inch of Abernethy said that when they arrived back in this country is controlled by the Washington they released indij^nant reports to their Iman who is a hero figure lo ;Mississippi Negroes, and by a .systi^m of white supremacy." respective constituencies "and returned as conquerms iclustor of national civil rights The National Association for horocvs to fill The Congressional Record with extended leaders who included Martin Ihe .\d\ anc(Mnent of Colored lamentations on what they .saw and heard in poor little l.uther Knig. People was ousifni fiom the fi­ ole Mississippi." Meredith applauded nal proLiram h\ ihe olher civil .Ml of them spoke, but only ri!:hts groups ;t1 ihe last minute "It Is quite strange that these Washington civil Meredith drew a great response on the ground that it did not rights experts, the news media and all, are this very from the crowd, whieh couldn't lend sufficK'nt supimrt in the day so quiet in the face of all the racial trouble, hear half of what was going on march. at the flatbed truck which l.oungin'-: nonchalant 1> i^< he incidents and riots, looting and shooting in Chicago, watched the speakers. Charles Cleveland, New York and Sacramento, Calif." served as the speakers plat­ form. K\ers state field director for In his address on the House floor, the Mi.ssissippi the NA.\rP, sairl he didnl mind •ilu fear that grips the being excluded rongressman said th.d several Negroe.s' have lx>en Negro in .Xmerica to his very It's all right." he said. "I'll 1>^ killed in Northern cities within the last few days and lx)nes must l>> erased if civil here when they le all gone." nothing has be<'n said by President .lohnson or Atty. rights are lo be won. cried K\er,s said Ihe crowd was Cicn. Nicholas Katzenlxich who "had been so \'ocal" in 'Meri'dith. quiet because nutst of thus*' the Meredith shooting. Peojile on the perimeter mill- l)re.sent were "pot)ped" by thej led alHiut restlessly as the long walk under a '^conhing; Furthermore, he said none of the congressmen who pleaders stepp<Hl, one by one, to sun. j took the While House plane "at taxpayers" expense" to 'the forest of microphones. Sonu' .lurist Overcome ' Mis.sissippi has demandcHl the federal government drifted away l>efore the speech­ Those overcome by heat and es ended. humidit>- included Pennsylvania intervene, and none has demanded a new civil rij^hts The crowd dispersed quietly Supreme Court .lustu-e \Iichael law. after the final words, streanum: .\. Musmanno. 68, of Pittsburgh. He walked the entire ronie ••COMP.MIE^THIS, Mr. .Speaker." Abernethy said, back homeward in nrge groups today, bul had to 1H> hclpj'd off "with the abuse that was heaped upon Mississippians but nol marching. the speaker's plat tot in. where when a Negro got sprinkled with bird shot, not by a Hits White .Supremacy he sat among the honou'd guests. Mississippian but by a Tennessean. In his brief talk. Meredith "What is the matter with you civil righters around I said the whites oof Mississippi 'Chanting "black power." a here? You are so quiet over the riots and killings of the are basically decent but "thert* crowd of militant Studtnt Non-. hour in the Northern and Western cities. Why don't you is a thing in Mississippi that is violent Coordinating Conunitteej demand federal action, federal intervention, more preventing white people from workers moved truculently mtol federal laws? tx'ing decent." i the lead as the column, 20 "We are anxiously awaiting. And listening, listen­ abreast, made the last mile. ing, listening." "That thing is white suprema­ c.v. The purpose of the march No serious incidents were re- that I started three weeks ago IMirted along the eight-mile toda. ,y, was to point up and route from Tougaloo College t(» challenge fhe thing at the base th«» Capitol. Tennx'i'idures were of the system -- fear. A foar in the low 90s City }>olico Jhat grips the Negro in America swarmed along \ho route. to his very Iwne.s." : The majority of volutes Meredith pointed out that he Iwatching near the Capitol were was shot on the .second dav of impassive. They included 50 his march "but as you can" sec Ku Klux Klansmcn wearing here, that didn't end a thing " green pants and shirts, with white ties and white belts. Little American flags flut-j U'r(>d in the hands of the march­ ers. Many whites among groups clustered at intersections waved Confederate flags. It was the 22nd day of the [march, which was started in Memphis. Tenn.. by Meredith.! the slender Negro who broke the racial barrier at the University of Mississippi in 1962. /. MARCHERS PLODDED ON\V\RD TIIR()UGH'1iA*iN°~"""°' """'""' Photographer made unusual piciuire Ithroug h windshield ot car iVlarcners prepari /.ts e for Grenada parade ftn ^ i4 (•/ BY GEORCiE Ml Ii: Meanwhile at Ripley today News slaff writer Circuit Judge Walter O'Barr Today's march got under GRENADA. Miss., June 14 denied a reduction of S2.1.00I) way shortly after tents were — Footweary civil rights bond for Aubrey .lames \or- struck at Enid Dam and marchers trudged into Gre­ vell charged in (he ambush marchers were hauled b\ shotiiing of James Meredith. nada today, prepared to pa­ tiucks and cars lo the srot at rade through the downtown N(;r\ell, 41, Memphis, uncn- wuich Monday's nuirch halt­ district before launching door- ployed hardware salesman, is ed. A good camp site, the to-door, county-wide voter charged with assault with intent registration drive. to kill and has been in jail since F.nid Dam localion has been the shooting. used Iwo ii'gliSs in succession Both state and federal as the marchers have been authorities were frankly ap­ Norvi'll, arrested hy two prehensive as some 175 highway patrol criminal inves­ cairriei d in vehicles to and marchers, now dishevelcfl and tigators minutes after Mere­ from their march slopping dirty after four overnirht dith was felled by three shot- and s\art ing place. campouts. approached the EAHLV TOD.VY the luanh city limits. gun blasts as he marched leaders were undecidiHl as to along li. S. 51 three miles Tension flKuratlvely crack­ where the two big tents would south of Hernando June 6. has be pitched. Three possible led along Grenada streets. made no public statement lined since early morning by sites, including Ihe Grenada since the shooting incidcmt. A Lake shoreline, were being whites and Negroes awaiting patrol source said Norvell told arrival of the marchers. Most considered. of those waiting are merely arresting officers he had "been squirrel hciting" when There was some indication curious. the march route might be a hail of shotgun pellets changed and veer westward, But, according to a highway struck Meredith. into the Delia country. patrol criminal investigator, Grenada has "three or four Later, however. DeSolo She­ hotheads" capable of trigger­ riff Lee Meredith claimed ing an incident—which para- Norvell had admitted shooting d 0 X i c a 11 y march leaders the 32-year-old Columbia Uni­ would welcome. versity law school student and Ole Miss graduate. The sheriff Since leaving Batesville did not discuss details of Saturday, march ranks have Norvell's alleged statement. seemed to thin out. Approx­ imately 125 persons, most of Norvell's attorney claims these hard core civil rights the $25,000 maximum bond set activists, hiked 15 miles Mon­ by a DeSoto County justice of day, the smallest number the peace is excessive; that counted since the march loft the normal bond for an "as­ Senatobia last Thursday. An sault with intent" charge is incident here today would $2,000. r^focus national attention on tWe march, one of its leaders a admitted privately Monday. ^V/c-i^c ^ But March Isn't Helping— •'^^'-^ ^'^r^ Mississippi Negroes Making Gains BY BRUCE BIOSSAT en desegregation in some places before Medicare takes effect WASHINGTON where people said it would •luly 1, only 17 of Mississippi's The Mississippi the civil never happen." 1.32 hospitals had signed up for rights marchers are plodding participation in the program as FOURTEEN ^Negroes attend­ of this writing.
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