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...humid. On the narrow balcony overlooking the courtroom a dozen Negroes silently watched the proceedings. Below, the seats in the whites-only section were jammed. All had come last week to see the murder trial of State of Georgia v. Joseph Howard Sims and Cecil William Myers...
...told how the three white men returned to an Athens garage operated by Herbert Guest, 37. Guest had been arrested with the others but a Madison County grand jury failed to return a murder indictment against him. Continued Lackey's confession: "The double-barreled shotgun used by Cecil Myers was the shopgun usually hanging on the wall of Guest's garage. The shotgun used by Sims is his own gun. As soon as we got back to Guest's garage, both Myers and Sims cleaned the shotguns in the garage. They wiped the guns off with...
When Philadelphia Negroes went on a rioting, looting rampage that ended only last week, there was only one Negro leader who could conceivably have stopped them. He is Cecil Moore, 49, president of the Philadelphia chapter of the N.A.A.C.P., the city's busiest Negro criminal lawyer, and a brilliant but frightfully demagogic...
...Cecil has a Jesus Christ complex," said a critic recently. "He thinks he is the self-appointed savior of the Negro in Philadelphia." Retorted Moore: "I'm not self-appointed. I was elected." A committee of 16 Negro leaders last year called him "a man bereft of reason." Two of the 16 were Judge Raymond Pace Alexander, the man who had sponsored Moore for admittance into the Philadelphia Bar Association, and Alexander's wife Sadie, who is chairman of the city's commission on human relations. No sooner had they spoken when Moore got up a sign...
...Corner. What makes Cecil run? Not money, for despite his huge law practice he is forever broke, spending thousands of dollars to represent indigent Negroes. Personal ambition? Perhaps. Twice he has run for Congress, and twice he has been defeated, but he might try again. Yet what obviously drives him is an inner anger combined with the sharp joy of combat...