Word: byhalia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three weeks after Young's death, an all-white county grand jury refused to return indictments against the police officers involved. Until indictments are forthcoming, the town's blacks insist they will continue to shop in other towns, including Memphis, Tenn., only 30 minutes from Byhalia...
...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...
...failure of the biracial meeting to face up to the issue of Butler Young's death has made the boycott's organizers even more determined. That determination is perfectly evident at Carrington's Market in Byhalia. Before the boycott, sales ran $30,000 a month. Today they are less than $6,000 a month...