Word: mccomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rolling up on schedule at the pink stucco bus depot in McComb, Miss. (pop. 15,500), a Greyhound discharged six Negro passengers. While a crowd of some 600 whites pushed against police cordons, the Negroes walked into the terminal's white waiting room, sat for three minutes while their baggage was unloaded. It was the first time a public facility had been integrated in Mississippi...
Even such small success came hard. Last September the Interstate Commerce Commission ordered an end to all bus depot segregation, but in McComb, no sooner were "white" and "colored" signs removed from the depot than local police set them up on the sidewalk outside. A federal court ordered the new signs removed. Early last week three Negro men and two girls were dispatched by the activist Congress of Racial Equality to test McComb's obedience to federal authority. In the depot they were set upon, beaten, and driven into the street by young white toughs...
...money will go to the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to support its voter registration drive in McComb, Miss...
There are already 18 SNCC field workers in McComb. But the group is so low on funds that the workers receive only apiece each week and may have to quit entirely...
Timothy Jenkins and Marian Wright, students at Yale Law School, and Thomas Hayden, one of two northern students beaten up while working with SNCC in McComb two weeks ago, addressed the group...