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...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...
...rough count (which is the way McComb counts such things), during the past year at least 13 Negro homes, churches or business places have been bombed, another half-dozen burned. Local cops have harassed more than they have helped, and the courts have offered little comfort. When nine whites were arrested and pleaded guilty or nolo contendere (no contest) in the bombing of Negro homes-a charge that carries a maximum penalty of death-County Judge W. H. Watkins freed them all with suspended sentences. As Watkins explained, they had been "unduly provoked" by civil rights workers, some of whom...
...hopeless seemed McComb that even the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, most militant of the major civil rights groups, closed its McComb office three years ago and never reopened it because, as one worker explained, "we just couldn't hold on without endangering lives." But last week it appeared that not even McComb was hopeless...
Trying to Be Fair. In a federal district court in Biloxi, civil rights lawyers requested that Pike County (of which McComb is the principal town) Sheriff R. R. Warren, McComb Police Chief George Guy, Mississippi State Public Safety Director T. B. Birdsong and three McComb patrolmen be enjoined from interfering with Negroes' civil rights. In their brief, they cited instance after instance in which rights workers were arrested and imprisoned on questionable charges. Last month, they said, local cops arrested 13 workers for operating a food-handling establishment without a permit-when all they were doing was cooking their...