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...Sand Mountain area between Chattanooga, Tenn., and Gadsden, Ala., is no place for pilgrims. It is a land of mountaineers who tote rifles in their cars, glare in suspicion at strangers, and believe unshakably in racial segregation. Last month William Moore, a onetime mental patient, thought he might change things by walking through the area displaying civil rights signs. It cost him his life; he was found shot dead on U.S. Highway 11 (TIME, May 3). Last week, following in his footsteps, came ten more civil rights hikers. They were arrested as they crossed the Alabama line, but others were...
...Warning. Moore's trek through the South began on April 21. Starting out from Chattanooga, he talked to many men along the way. One was Floyd Simpan, 41, proprietor of a country grocery on the road near Collbran, Ala. Unlike much-traveled Bill Moore, Simpson had spent nearly all his life within ten miles of his store; he did not finish high school until after he was 30. On the morning of April 23, the country storekeeper and some pals saw Moore plodding toward them. They read his signs and talked with him. Recalls Simpson: "We couldn...
...emphasize the travails of the South, an integrationist postman named William Moore, walking from Chattanooga, Tenn. to Jackson, Miss, to protest segregation, was shot and killed on a lonely Alabama highway. President Kennedy called the slaying an ''outrageous crime," and Alabama's Wallace offered a $1,000 reward for the murderer's capture...
...system. "Today TVA can shut off the Tennessee River when the Ohio is in flood-shut it off just like a faucet," says David Lilienthal, TVA's early crusading chairman. TVA did just that a few weeks ago. and saved an estimated $100,000,000 flood damage in Chattanooga alone...
...economic powers in the Industrial Piedmont Cities of Charlotte, Greenville, and Greensboro, in the inland trade centers such as Nashville and Jackson, in the port cities of Savannah, Charleston, and New Orleans, in the heavy industry areas at Knoxville, Chattanooga, Birmingham, and Memphis and especially in Atlanta, are seizing control of the civic leadership. Their natural conservatism is tempered by the overwhelming drive for new progress: they constitute a force of moderatism...