Word: greenwood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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William W. Hodes '66, a SNCC volunteer working in Greenwood, Miss., was arrested for disorderly conduct, Saturday, beaten in a rather offhand manner by the local police, and released later that day on $100 bond...
Hodes and several other civil rights workers were distributing registration formed in the main Negro marketplace in Greenwood. The square is at the edge of the white district, and a crowd of whites formed across the street to jeer...
...Greenwood, Miss., made its first arrests-on the basis of the new civil rights law. Three white men were picked up on the complaint of a Negro who accused them of beating him up after he disregarded their threats and attended a whites-only movie...
...more Harvard undergraduates tangled with Mississippi justice over the weekend. Peter Orris '67 was one of 98 people including both civil rights workers and local Negroes arrested Friday in Greenwood, Miss. He and the others remained in jail over the weekend and were in jail and fined $100 each by the city court...
...From Greenwood down to Jackson...My first real taste of the Mississippi sun dropping westward ever so slowly and flaying the cotton-frothed, billiard table flatness of the Delta. Stilted shacks in willow-ringed hollows; tall merciless lilywhite factory stacks; "The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Welcome you to Tchula;" grinning, barefoot, ragged black boys skimming along the highway on a pickup truck; Tall, gaunt, stooped, tobacco chewing, strawhatted farmers--black and white. Neat brick middle-class American homes...Troopers and policemen everywhere, fat comic opera sherrifs in stenciled boots and stetsons. "K.O. the Kennedys!--Vote Rubel Phillips...