COFO NSWS RELEASE January L6,1961I 1017 Lynch Street 35?-960
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COFO NSWS RELEASE January l6,1961i 1017 Lynch Street 35?-960$ Jackson,Mississippi HfECCWEST OF 18 ACCOSH) WRW5R15W JACKSON. Civil Rights workers in Mississippi exor#essed"guarde'* optimism"and some doubts about the indictment and arrest of the 18 men ac cused of murdering James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Mickey Sowerner last June. ^ome COFO and FDP leaders today(3ata) doubted whether the indictments would result in any convictions since the Federal Jurors like,the state jurors are composed almost exclusively of white persons,The '/bssibility that an all white jury would convict white men for murdering a Negro or White Civil Rights workers is seen here as"extremely doubtfultf It was also felt that the indictments would take the Ifetional spotlight off the other activities of the civil rights movtnrent. Ironically,the three slain men had worked diligently on these activitiesjnow their death* may serve in some ways to divert attention from cause they were Sighting for,Right now,for example,the FD? and COFO are directing i$$ their energies to challenging the firve segregationist Mississippi Congressmen. FT chairman,Lawrence Guyot and other FDP members from Aberdeen,McComb,and Jackson complained about the"viciously diseriminstpry" bonds set for the 18 alleged conspiratorsi" A Negro,1' one Aberdeen man said, "would never have been set free on $£,700 bond for killing a white man, Ke might have been lynched before that ever happened, •"• A Fhiladej phiayP^iCher / Treacher said that" nothing ha3 changed much since the arrests(of Fainey,Price and the other accused conspirators)", "They(lccal toughs) still beat up folk*, and when we #all the sheriff's they tell us to go call the FHToAbout a »|Mrth ago there was a Negro man shot in a cafe.,..,.., there was a fight there.We called Sheriff Painey about it but they never did investigate the shooting." G>ewev«.l *+»•+© mants -* Iw4we».+/»h /kJjJf^^ >ui...r.;.. TIZEN3 CCU: *T ! LIST »*«ref missing civil rigfate worker MloJsry gnhwerner wis oat of 136 oars 11*tod on a Hot curtained recently from th« Canton White Citizens Council, the list was of "fAJtt OBStXVED Dl TXCCTrY or com AND KMC? wanraiae m CAITPOM, mfsmiPfi". AH importer local government officials lo Canton, ani all State representatives that city are known to too Oitisens Oevnoll sweaters. list bod obviously boon circulated to nak* widely .mown tho oara and nanos of civil rlghta workers and looal people active 1A elvil rights of fairs. Canton has recently boon the sjsawsjnaj ecv eerleta vigilante activities. A oar of elvll rights workers drttn frosi Canton to Jackson was stopped on Ana _. Ihe driver, a Paklatanl who la teaching at Tomes loo College neor Jaokaon, was beaten, and tho oocupants felt that they only narrowly escaped with their Uvea. • Ant* is good reason to expect that llata ouoh as this one amy have boon circulated over a largo area, and that suoh llata night have boon used to Identify and way-lay tho Sohvorner oar. It IS against this kind of aotivity that civil rights workers la tho state have almost no protection, beoauae looal law enforoenent] offioere Jo not offer protection to workers and are often themselves Involved in tho most pruts1 forme of harassment. Pol loo in some areas of the atate are japans said to bo members of tho Cltlaons Oounoll and tho Ku CLux flan. fa gala protection against suoh vigilante activity, it would bo necoGoor for federal courts and federal agencies tot l) Either enjoin local officials to give reel protection to N1 £Eivi l righta workers end locsl wegroes setlvt in civil rights, or [8) Bring In sufficient federal idrsballs and FBI agents is offer federal protection to thoee working in the stste. $ • • - • Soo^Wl&H G e*ev«. I VU"te m a H*T s Iv(4t>VMiaT/»H tsf QBSWTO ti ticiarrr or OOK «B * • V*? $-#» Slaughter, 227 Hsrle S >et 1959 Qa^vrolaf fcfe* 1955 rerd lef; g... ;i„ |orrl|M 231 i»t aaatesi * 19^0 Psatisc M*it*y PslsssAl) amemc If >J * 1957 Peatlse 6 am flaadvrtt, jj^ ( I«-J .»-> «set;qaaaea S Cksvrolat T <<•# •;•?. Osatec i960 l***i* K «4«ic*tt, 4oi Casteae 0tr*eVt. i\ e%: ; 19*1 Qurrrolet B»m Jft^ksst-ra,, Boots 1, Hedlwe* ;„*. 1955 ror4, Crw tt B*i..; £9tbo£gr Bordgsrs,. 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