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Baltimore Postman William Moore, a white man murdered as he walked along an Alabama highway wearing an integration sign, and Mississippi N.A.A.C.P. Leader Medgar Evers, shot in the back outside his home, became martyrs to the cause. Direct-action protests proliferated. There were more "freedom walks" and "freedom marches"-and...
The done-in and dying cowboy has been replaced by victims of racial violence like Medgar Evers. The stock villains, besides Policeman Connor, include Ross Barnett, "Mr. Woolworth" and, occasionally, John Kennedy. On the other side of the fence, Dallas Folk Singer Hermes Nye has been singing a bitterly resigned...
It is quite unlikely that Barnett will be able to get the courts to go along with him on this one. Mr. Meredith's "inflammatory remarks" consisted of calling for a general boycott of "everything possible" by Mississippi Negroes; he made these remarks in the context of a statement on...
-A fact which led the Jackson, Miss., Clarion-Ledger to headline an Associated Press story: CALIFORNIAN is CHARGED WITH MURDER OF EVERS.
BOSTON. More than 3,000 chanting Negroes and whites gathered on Boston Common to hear Negro speakers eulogize murdered Integration Leader Medgar Evers. Democratic Governor Endicott Peabody, who decreed "Medgar Evers Memorial Day," gave state employees two hours off to attend the rally.