Word: decatur
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minutes motorcycle engines growled on a corner of Decatur St. The crackle of police radios could be heard as Southern voices drawled, "Ten niggers comin' down this way, and 20 whites. Can't tell what they mean...
...employees after they ran out of raw sugar. Pepsi-Cola closed its Long Island City bottling plant. Grain exporters estimated that they lost $250 million of January shipments. Cargill Inc., the nation's largest grain exporter, closed elevators in four states, and two soybean plants shut down in Decatur...
CARL R. CAUGHMAN Decatur...
Diverted Attention. On the stump, Humphrey counted the countless mis- deeds of Barry Goldwater. "He wouldn't vote yes for Mother's Day," he cried in Peoria, 111., and in Decatur he added: "I imagine that Abraham Lincoln would be called a socialist by the present pretender to the presidency of the Republican Party." As for his own speeches, Humphrey chortled: "I never know whether the audience likes them, but I sure do." He even had fun with his hecklers, smiling down on groups of sign-waving Goldwaterites and saying: "They carry their badge of political...
Over 600 Negroes have been lynched in the State of Mississippi since 1982. Evers himself, at the age of fourteen, saw a friend of his father's lynched in Decatur, Miss., supposedly for insulting a white woman. Two Negroes who registered to vote, the Rev. George W. Lee of Belxoni, Miss., and Lamar Smith of Brookhaven, Miss., were shot to death in 1955. Emmett Till was killed that same year. During the spring of 1959, Mack Parker was dragged from his call in Poplarville and murdered. Not a single man has been brought to trial for any of these crimes...