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...years ending in 1918, the N.A.A.C.P. lists 3,224 cases in which people were hanged, burned or otherwise murdered by white mobs. No Negro could feel really safe-for reasons perhaps best described in the well-authenticated report of one famed lynching: "A mob near Valdosta, Ga., frustrated at not finding the man they sought for murdering a plantation owner, lynched three innocent Negroes instead; the pregnant wife of one wailed at her husband's death so loudly that the mob seized her and burned her alive, too." Says Roy Wilkins of the priority given by the N.A.A.C.P...
...almost as popular as Kennedy is unpopular. A couple of small signs of Southern political times: in Miami a newspaper ad for PT 109, the movie about Kennedy's wartime exploits, included: "For those patrons who are not J.F.K. supporters, we have free Goldwater bumper strips." In Thomasville, Ga., a theater operator advertised: "See the Japs almost get Kennedy...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20--The meaning of "euphoria" is not all that Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara has had to explain to Sen. Richard Russell (D-Ga.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and the other senators hearing testimony on the partial test ban treaty...
Editor's note: This is the last of three articles written by a Harvard Law student describing the trial of a Negro man in Baker County, Ga. Elizabeth Holtzman was a clerk this summer for C. B. King of Albany, Ga. one of the attorneys who defended Charlie Ware...