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...other such occurrences, I'm going to put some Klansmen, some police officials and some Negro preachers together in the U.S. penitentiary...
...three-judge court that abolished the Alabama poll tax; that handed down the first order requiring a state to reapportion its devised by judges. It was Frank who so inspired an Alabama with a sense of responsibility that it was able to convict the three Ku Klux Klansmen who gunned down Viola Liuzzo on the road back to Montgomery from Selma. It was Frank Johnson whomustered the three-judge court that has just ordered desegregation of all of Alabama's 118 school districts next fall-the first such statewide ruling in the nation, and perhaps the most important school...
Last-Ditch Verdict. Soon after Selma came Johnson's finest hour of putting down lawlessness: the trial of the three Klansmen for gunning down Detroit Housewife Viola Liuzzo on Route 80 after the march. A Lowndes County jury had acquitted Collie Leroy Wilkins, though an FBI informant testified that he saw Wilkins commit the murder...
Linking Arms. Within hours, Negroes were marching the hilly streets to protest the killing. State N.A.A.C.P. Field Secretary Charles Evers led some 2,000 to watch the changing of shifts at the Armstrong plant, which, he says, is infested with Ku Klux Klansmen. Evers, whose brother Medgar, another civil rights worker, was shot to death in front of his Jackson, Miss., house in 1963, warned whites that the patience of Natchez Negroes was just about exhausted. "Once we learn to hate, they're through," he said. "We can kill more people in one day than they've done...
...similar incidents in the past-most notably, the still-unsolved slaying of two young Negroes whose dismembered bodies were dredged from the Mississippi River in 1964. The board of aldermen put up a $25,000 reward for the killers, and Armstrong, which has so far pleaded inability to keep Klansmen off its payroll, chipped in another $10,000. Mississippi Governor Paul Johnson called the bombing an "act of savagery which stains the honor of our state...