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May 27-28, 1967 THE VOL. III, NO. 22 WEEKE ND E DITION: MAY 27-28, 1967 TEN CE~TS • Bloody Week for People Ill Ala., Miss.: Funeral in Jackson and Two New Deaths Man Found In Wilcox BY BETH WILCOX PINE HILL--The body of Rodell Williamson, age 31, was found in a·fishing net over a creek here last Monday. The next day, WU11amson•s cousin, Fred D. Campbell, identltled the body at the Brownlee Funeral Home. "It was hard to tell who he was," Campbell sald later, "but I went back tour or five times to make sure." The victim's mother, Mrs. WUlle McCaskey ot Lower Peachtree, said she told Campbell "to look at his (Williamson's) heels--they're rough, you can tell by that." Then, she said, Campbell "came "COLORED ENTRANCE" out and said, 'Yes, that's him.'" BENJAMIN BROWN'S FUNERAL IN JACKSON B'ham Victim Fled Through Here RODELL WILLIAMSON'S MOTHER Mrs. McCaskey said Charles Brown­ lee, owner of the fUneral home, told her not to look at the body. But Campbell said he saw signs ot violence, 'We Can't Leave Another B'ham Killing "It really seemed to be that his neck was natural-born broken, and his head BY ROBIN REISIG scheduled to start a new Job. He had bery or burglary. "Pollee don't shoot all covered up, smashed,'' aatd the cousin. "I asked Mr. Brownlee to pull BffiMINGHAM -- "Aren't the pollee been laid oft work for a month, and" got except at a fieelng felon," said Birm­ back the rar over the head, but he And Do Nothing' trained to shoot down, not up? Why up 6 a.m. every morning to look tor a ingham Chief Jamie Moore, "and it wouldn't do it." couldn't they shoot him in the leg?" Job, but he never did have any luck," doesn't make much difference where "He (W111iamson) sure looked to me asked the young widow of Bobby Thom­ said his widow, Mrs. Ruby Dean Tbom- they aim." BY MERTIS RUBIN was slaln in 1963, like something was done to him," as. Campbell said. "There was a gash JACKSON, M1ss,--11We can•t afford "Haven't a single white man served Thomas, a 20-year-old father ot two, On Tuesday, said Mrs. Thomas, a po­ around the back of the neck, and bruises to leave here and do nothing about the one day," hesald. "We'vegottochange was shot and kllled by a Birmingham lice officer with a warrant searched her on his chest." murder of Ben Brown," said Owen by uniting ourselves together." pollee officer last Monday. According house "for tools," but didn't find any. But Brownlee said, "I don't ttltnk it Brooks, acting director of the Delta Stokely Carmichael ofSNCC attended to pollee reports, he had broken into a "I told them I didn't see why they come was racial--you know what I mean." Ministry. the funeral, but made no comments. small restaurant when he was shot in searching," she said. "He's dead and paid tor his mistakes." And one of WUcox County Sherttt P. c. Brooks was one of the people who But Rap Brown, SNCC•s new chairman, the back by ottlcer Paul A. Price. {"Lummle") Jenkins' deputies said any spoke May 18 atthetuneralotBenjamin had a lot to say that night at a mass Thomas is the tourth Negro to be . Tuesday morning, tour members ot talk about foul play is a "damn ue... Brown, who was kllled in the May 12 meeting in Pratt Methodist Church, kUled this year by a law officer in the the Alabama Christian Movement-­ However, the FBI was called into the uprising at Jackson State College. Birmingham area. Ten weeks and one "Black people are as gullty as that George Walker, Tommy Wrenn, James case, to see 1t a fUll investigation is About 1 500 people packed into the Ma­ day ot marches protesting pastk1111ngs 1 racist cop whose bullet k1lled Ben Armstrong, and the Rev. L. J. Rogers necessary. And W1111amson•s fUneral, aOD!c Temple bere to pay their re- had ended less than two weeks before Brown, because we didn't do nothing --met with Chief Moore. scheduled tor last Wednesday, waa Thomas was shot. and tor 400 years we•ve been doing noth­ postponed until Saturday. "We wanted a statement ot the chief .. ing," Rap Brown sald. The victim was not armed. "I saw him last Friday for the last of pollee of his investigating of the "We k11led Ben Brown, too, but we Price refused to comment on the kUl­ Ume, when he caught the school bus to homicide case involving Bobby Thomas, can•t afford to let Ben Brown die. We ing. But a pollee official said Thomas go up and pick up his pay •" said Mrs. but he refused to do this," Wrenn said ~·~~· l let Medgar Evers die. We•ve been letting was one of three Negro men spotted by McCaskey. later. "He said his men are not trained black people die tor years. Ben Brown Price inside the W & W Beverage Store Campbell said, "David McCaskey (a 1 at about 2 a.m. to stop a suspect by shooting 1n the low­ is dead because he's black." relative) told me that about 11 or 11:30 er part ot the body--the legs--and that \ : . Price ordered the three men to stand Saturday night, Rodell came to his -Y\f· The SNCC chairman related Ben still, said to the ottlclal. When they his officers do not aim at the head with . · house. McCaskey did not open the door the intention of kUling," Brown's kUling to the war in VietNam: ran, Price nred into the store. J, c. or go out, because he was asleep. But "(President) Johnson has become a Barnes hit in the leg, according to was SCENE OF THOMAS' DEATH Wrenn said the chief referred to he knows it was him- -by his voice." two-gun cracker. He•s ktlllng you the official, but Henry S~ith and Thom­ as, a slender, pretty 20-year-old. Thomas• previous record--including a " Later," Campbell went on, " I heard B,BROWN C. EVERS over there in Viet Nam,andhe'sktlllng 11 as ran out the back door. 1 feel bad that hegotshotthatway-­ conviction tor grand larceny and burg­ that a doctor's nurse was going to see spects. you in Jackson • ••• Next to Viet Nam, Thomas's body was found several didn' t want him to die that way, any kind a patient, and she said sbe saw a man Mississippi and Alabama have the high­ lary. "Brown was a quiet person," Brooks hours later, a block and a hall away. ot way but that way," she said, talking between the sick lady's house and the said, "but he had a wUl- to-do. He did est casualty rate tor black people." Smith, after being released on bond, about how Thomas was shot in the "We may have to march with the road. He was beaten and oo his knees. more in 22 years than most people do The Rev. Allen Johnson of Jackson said he wasn't robbing the store. He back, caskets again to dramatize the Negro's He looked real bad. Butshedidn'tstop, sald the people should boycott all white in twice that time." (Brown worked as sald he heard the poUceman shout Under law, pollee can use whatever problem," said Wrenn. "I believe you because she was atraid." stores in the city, until their demands a group leader tor the Delta Ministry "something, but I don't know what." force is necessary to catch someone can apprehend a criminal, especially 1t "We asked the sheriff about it," said in 1965-66.) {CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO, Col,4) The morning he died, Thomas was who has committed a felony- -like rr;!J- he is unarmed, without k1111ng him." Campbell, "but hedidn'tsayanything." Brooks said Brown was "murdered, , a victim of racism," "So that Ben and all the other Ben Browns don't die for nothing, we•ve got to commitourselves to stand together," he said. Although the Rev, Kenneth Dean of Educators Plead for More Money the Mississippi Council on Human Re­ lations had asked city otticlals to attend BY MARY ELLEN GALE Tuskegee, he said, amended its said former Governor George c. Wal­ Ward Mllltary Academy in his home flocked to Montgomery last week to ask the fUneral, none of them came, But MONTGOMERY -- "The average charter in 1943 to allow tor expanded lace had promised ~m a few months county ot Tallapoosa. "All the private the Legislature tor more money. there were some white students from Tuskegee student's tamlly is at the pov­ state aid: "U this hadn't passed, there's ago that Tuskegee•.s funds would be con­ schools are doing an excellent Job," Mlllsaps College in Jackson. .,I belleve the people ot this state-­ erty level or below," said Tuskegee In­ no telling how many nigger students tinued--and probably increased. said Radney. it they understand the competition we "I've been told by some ofthewhites would be at the University Alabama stitute President Luther H. Foster. "U ot "I asked him about it yesterday," Lyman Ward, Marlon Institute, and tace and the potential of education-­ here that they care," Dean said at the Tuskegee's appropriation is reduced or and Auburn--they would have swamped Pinson continued, "and George say, 'I Walker Junior College are the only fUneraL "But when people care, good wm be w1111ng to pay for tt," said Au­ ellmlnated, many of these students •em." forgot it.•" three private schools besides Tuskegee things happen." burn University President Harry M.
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