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...their hatred for Meredith at the University of Mississippi in 1962 - hovered around like mother hens; highway crews even mowed the high grass on the road shoulders to smooth the marchers' path. For veteran civil rights demonstrators, the atmosphere could hardly have seemed more unreal if the Ku Klux Klan had plied them with doughnuts and coffee...
White churchmen, themselves treated somewhat scornfully by the Ministry, complain that the Ministry has ignored Mississippi's numerous white poor in its projects; Greenville residents charge that one tangible result of the "reconciliation" has been a revival of Ku Klux Klan activity in areas where it had long been dormant. Yet they concede to the Ministry one ironic and important accomplishment: mutual distrust of its operations has for the first time driven Negro and white moderates toward the beginnings of true dialogue and cooperation...
MISSISSIPPI: A SELF-PORTRAIT (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). A news special investigating the opinions and attitudes of white Mississippians including Ku Klux Klan members, sharecroppers, housewives, millionaires, businessmen and political and religious leaders...
...James Reeb in Selma, the Birmingham church bombing in which four Negro girls died and the killing of Seminarian Jonathan Daniels in Hayneville, Ala. Indeed, FBI agents last week wound up an intense 76-day investigation in Mississippi with the arrest of 14 White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, who were indicted under Section 241 and the 1965 Voting Rights Act in connection with the Jan. 10 fire-bomb attack on the Hattiesburg home of Vernon Dahmer, 58, a Negro who had been president of the local N.A.A.C.P. in 1964. When Dahmer tried to flee his blazing house...
...months congressional stenographers catalogued the names and protestations of klaliffs, kleagles, kladds and kludds. Last week the House UnAmerican Activities Committee decided that it had heard all the testimony that it needed-or could stand-and quietly ended its hearings into the activities of the Ku Klux Klan...