Word: belzoni
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the assembly sought enactment of civil rights legislation such as withholding of federal funds from segregated institutions, federal protection of the right to vote. Among those present were famous faces of the recent weeks of tension: Gus Courts of Belzoni, Miss., boycotted and shot after he refused to take his name off the voting registration lists; Autherine Lucy, late of the University of Alabama; the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, one of a score of Negro ministers indicted in connection with the Negro bus boycott in Montgomery...
...Johnson, prosperous Negro undertaker in Belzoni, was treated to the arrival of a C.C.-imported rival funeral home, which tried to slash his business...
...Belzoni, Miss., the Citizens Council learned that Negro Undertaker T. B. Johnson is a member of the pro-integration Regional Council of Negro Leadership, warned him that he had better not take the job of being chairman of the local Negro Boy Scouts. If he did, said his white townsmen, he would never get a penny of credit in Belzoni again. Told that he might also be run out of town, Johnson gave...