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From that incident has grown one of the longest civil rights boycotts in Mississippi history. Organized by the United League of Marshall County, a local civil rights group that claims to have 4,000 members, the boycott has been nearly 100% effective for eight months. It has cut business in some Byhalia stores by as much as 75%. Six white merchants have already declared bankruptcy, and others may soon follow...
Losing No Steam. White merchants have tried to stop the boycott in court. They brought a suit against the league, which they eventually lost in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. Outside the courts, the league's leaders have been threatened and even shot at. The boycott's supporters think that Mississippi Senator James Eastland, powerful chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has intervened in the Byhalia situation. They insist that Eastland has pressured the Justice Department to try to break up the boycott...
...Justice Department did send representatives, not of its Civil Rights Division, but of its less effective Community Relations Service, to Byhalia last August. Boycott leaders claim that CRS agents harassed participants in the boycott, tried to discredit black leaders and even urged blacks to resume shopping in white-owned Byhalia stores. The leaders also charge that CRS men frequently slipped money to black winos and steered them in the direction of white-owned package stores. CRS agents deny that they harassed anyone or bribed, winos. In any case, the boycott shows no signs of losing steam. The FBI has found...
Though 250 black and white Byhalia residents met amicably last week and drew up a list of priorities for improving the town, none of their resolutions directly addressed the boycott-or the death of Young. "I think we're on the way to settling the problem," said Dudley Moore, Byhalia's white mayor. But many of Byhalia's blacks would hardly agree...
Neither Gallo nor the officials in charge of the Business School recruiting program were available last night to confirm the change in plans or to comment on the proposed demonstration in support of the UFW's nationwide boycott of Gallo products...