Word: mccomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mississippi, according to John Emmerich, Jr., managing editor of the McComb Enterprise-Journal, things will get a lot worse before they get better. Freedom riders in that state aggravate the white Southerner, Emmerich added, and "make him mad as hell...
...McComb, Miss., police had just finished escorting five battered Freedom Riders into a Greyhound bus (TIME, Dec. 8) when an onlooker turned in disgust to a group of newsmen. "Is anybody here from Jimmy Ward's paper?" he asked. "I want him to look at them niggers sitting in the front. What do you think Jimmy would have to say about that...
...Ward, 42, of the Jackson Daily News (circ. 42,593) would say about the "Friction Riders"-as the News calls them. Jimmy did not let them down: "The Congress of Riot Encouragement [Ward's phrase for the Congress of Racial Equality] and concerned officials in Washington rejoice that McComb fell and the Greyhound bus terminal rest room has been integrated. While these dear hearts are jubilant over victory day, people down this way mark last Friday as VD day in Mississippi...
...budget of $131,000, about half provided by the African Methodist Episcopal Church. For the rest, says President Robert M. Stevens, "we just have to do a lot of hustlin'." Now gifts are vanishing. Campbell is solidly behind civil rights agitation in the nearby town of McComb. Says Stevens wryly: "I could raise half a million in no time if we suddenly began promoting the idea of segregation...
That brought the threat of drastic federal action, and a detachment of U.S. deputy marshals began assembling in New Orleans. But Attorney General Robert Kennedy called McComb from Washington, got Mayor Charles H. Douglas' promise to keep order. Thus, when the second group of CORE riders arrived in McComb, 15 cops, the sheriff and nine Pike County deputies were at the depot. They picked up four troublemakers who attacked visiting newsmen (including TIME's Atlanta Bureau Chief Simmons Fentress), protected the CORE riders until an afternoon bus took them back to New Orleans...