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The Response. The Negroes had created their crisis-and Connor had made it a success. "The civil rights movement," said President Kennedy in a meeting later with King, "owes Bull Connor as much as it owes Abraham Lincoln." That was at best an oversimplification; nevertheless, because of Connor, the riots...
Sir: Women of the Year: Mrs. Medgar Evers and Mrs. John F. Kennedy.
It is with this history in mind that Roy Wilkins said are Evers' funeral, "The killer must have felt that he had, if not an immunity, then certainly a protection for whatever he chose to do, no matter how dastardly it might be."
Yet Mississippi's heritage may still prevail, Half a year has passed since the death of Evers and still no one has been brought to trial for the crime. Beckworth is still charged with the killing, but the summer's sense of urgency has been lost, and a series of...
Whether or not Beckworth is guilty of the murder of Evers is not the issue at hand here. The real issue if whether or not Mississippi intends ever to bring him to trial or prefers instead to continue to make a farce of justice. Mississippi Negroes have made every attempt...