Word: mccomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS. Compliance with the new public-accommodations law, which took effect last summer, has been good, on the whole. Negroes are received at restaurants and hotels even in such notorious centers of segregation as McComb, Miss., Birmingham, Ala., and Albany, Ga. There have been some violent cases of defiance: in Mississippi one Negro was beaten when he tried to eat at a lunch counter; another was shot when he patronized a theater. Often Negroes are served grudgingly, but sometimes they get "brown-skin service," meaning they are received with such elaborate courtesy that they are actually embarrassed. In many...
...class of 1,200, spent two years in local colleges shopping for majors, then moved with his Sicilian-'immigrant parents to California and entered the university at Berkeley Soon was "disenchanted." He "drifted" into the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ("Snick") and last summer joined a Freedom School in McComb, Miss., to teach Negroes poetry history, math and genetics-"a good subject to show how black and white people are the same...
When he returned to Berkeley this fall, after a summer of civil rights work in McComb, Mississippi, Savio began to speak at rallies against University restrictions on campus political activity. As the rallies grew from a few hundred students to a few thousand, Savio became the feature attraction. In October, when 1500 demonstrators sat down around a patrol car and prevented police from removing an arrested student, Savio took off his shoes and climbed atop the car to address his followers. Commenting on the spectacle, the San Francisco Chronicle called Savio "a silver-tongued orator...
...months later, he was sitting in a Negro farmhouse in the Mississippi Delta region, planning a voter registration campaign. He left the state for a year, but returned the following summer to set up a voting project in McComb-the first in the state and a model of the thirty such projects presently operating there. He has been in Mississippi ever since...
...remember very sharply that I didn't want to go immediately back into McComb because my shirt was very bloody and I figured that if we went back in we would probably frighten everybody," he recalls. So, Moses washed up before heading back to McComb. He later required eight stitches to close his head wound...