Word: greenwood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Else." The case against Beckwith, a Greenwood fertilizer salesman, hinged on a .30/06 Enfield rifle, found near a clump of sweetgum trees across the street from Evers' home in Jackson on the morning after the murder. A fingerprint of Beckwith's was found on the weapon's telescopic sight...
...When the defense's turn came, Chief Counsel Hardy Lott, a former president of Greenwood's white Citizens Council, which had solicited funds for Beckwith's defense, called 20 witnesses, compared with the prosecution's 36. Two were Greenwood cops who claimed they had seen Beckwith in Greenwood, a fast 90-minute drive from Jackson, shortly before and after the killing...
...ignored; city, country, and state police joined the FBI in the hunt for the killer. Gov. Ross Barnett and Jackson's Mayor Allen C. Thompson, both members of the Citizens Council, offered rewards for the apprehension of the assassin. Fingerprints on the murder weapon led the federal detectives to Greenwood, Miss., where the first Citizens Council in Mississippi was founded, and to Beckworth. He was charged with murder, and District Attorney William L. Walker demanded the death penalty. It seemed as if the time had ended when Negroes could be murdered with impunity...
...Hood and his merry men. "Friar Tuck is certainly no example of how a High Churchman should behave," sniffed the Review. Maid Marian was "certainly no 'Maid.' " As for Robin, he was simply "an outlaw who had deserted his lawful wife for fun and games in the greenwood with Marian...
...North and South, black and white-felt the fangs of segregation and, at least in spirit, joined the protest movement. The revolution was on-in earnest. Places little known for anything else became bywords for racial conflict-Anniston, Ala., Albany, Ga., Prince Edward County, Va., Cambridge, Md., Englewood, N.J., Greenwood and Greenville, Miss., Goldsboro and Greensboro...