Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...added, however, that the Administration would probably not supply federal funds to be used for local school operations, including teachers' salaries...
Minter and Cox wanted to remain in Holmes County and continue their missionary work at their cooperative farm there. Both felt that time might show the local citizenry its mistake, and that they could still run their project. If a nationwide protest arose, however, as could easily happen if Northerners clamored, it would only serve to drive the townspeople together and make them even more hostile to the missionary work...
...this day Minter and Cox have not left. Their plans are not yet permanent, but they are hoping that a reversal of opinion will turn the town in their favor. A few respected local friends in the meantime are talking to people, trying to explain the plan of the cooperative farm and the type of work Minter and Cox are doing...
...local sheriff is notorious for his Negrophobia and did little to obtain evidence. The state moved in quickly and sincerely, however, and indicted the two white men (something which might not have been done at all some years ago). It then went about trying to get a conviction. The two prosecuting attorneys made every attempt to get witnesses and evidence, and the judge was unanimously praised for his fairness, especially in having closed hearings on the racially tender issue of Till's supposed remarks...
...legally constituted authority, acted in all apparent good faith to see that justice was done, but that as soon as the crime was announced, the NAACP began a heated denunciation of the state and its political morality. This kind of shot-gun slander produced the predictable result--the local citizens began to turn their condemnation from the murder of a Negro boy to the NAACP. This reaction was so strong that the subsequent acquittal of Milam and Bryant in another trial for kidnapping, in which the state's case was much stronger, appears to have been a direct expression...