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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...
...rightfielder by the New York Yankees in 1919, Halas played in 12 games and batted .091. The Yanks lost little time replacing him with an ex-Boston pitcher named George Herman Ruth. Back to football went Halas -as coach, trainer, ticket seller, publicity man and player for the Decatur Ill., Staleys, later called the Chicago Staleys and later still (in 1922) named the Chicago Bears...
...Georgia, the Decatur-De Kalb News, which gives away 32,700 copies a week, has its own editorial cartoonist, pays the dues of all reporters who want to join civic clubs-and on rainy days fields as many as 500 telephone complaints from irate "subscribers" who simply cannot understand why delivery has been delayed. In increasing numbers, the giveaways break up the ads with news stories. But their editorial staffs vary widely. The San Francisco Progress, with a city distribution of 181,000-more than any of San Francisco's three big paid-circulation dailies -gets along fine with...
...would never mention Khrushchev," says Editor Ferdinand Mendenhall of the Valley Green Sheet, "unless he drops a bomb on Van Nuys Boulevard." The Decatur-De Kalb News has some 6,000 "associate editors"-all of whom paid $2 for the title, and many of whom submit stories to the paper. In Topsfield, Mass., the local school bus driver, an energetic amateur photographer, snaps all the pictures for Topsfield's giveaway paper, the Tri-Town Transcript...
...Born in Decatur, Miss., Evers was raised in black ignominy. When he was 14, one of his father's closest friends was shot and killed because he was accused of insulting a white woman. The man's clothing lay in a field for months afterward. "I used to see the clothes when I went hunting," Evers recalled. "I can close my eyes and still see them...