Word: belzoni
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Right Behind You." For a time, the controversy all but overshadowed the Mississippi march. As the week began, the marchers plodded through the red dust of Belzoni-where a Negro minister was murdered ten years ago for trying to register voters-and towns with ominous-sounding names like Midnight. At Louise a score of marchers led by King left the main group and headed for Philadelphia, the town of brotherly love, Mississippi-style, where three civil rights workers were slain in 1964. There, white Mississippians soon abandoned the sullen restraint they had shown through the march's first fortnight...
...Belzoni: Ellis Jackson, local COFO director, arrested when he went to investigate the beating of a Negro boy. Charged with disturbing the peace and refusing to obey an officer...