Word: mccomb
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...McComb, Miss., a town of 12,400 people set in the harsh, pine-dotted country in the southwestern corner of the state, quaintly refers to itself as "the Camellia City of America." In recent years McComb has justly earned a reputation as the toughest anti-civil rights community in the toughest anti-civil rights area in the toughest anti-civil rights state in the Union...
Marshall L. Ganz '65 and 17 other civil rights workers who were arrested on a trespassing charge in McComb, Miss. Monday has been released and the charges against them have been dropped...
...result of an earlier arrest, however, Ganz and eight other COFO workers were convicted and fined $50 each yesterday in McComb for "operating a food handling establishment without complying with food regulations." NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund lawyers plan to appeal the convictions...
...arrests came during McComb's "Freedom Day" as Negro residents of the city attempted to register to vote. A local official told applicants at the courthouse that the register had been ordered to appear in court and would not be able to register voters...
...hearing on the food-handling charge will be held in McComb today; an NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund representative in McComb said the cage would probably be bound over to a Pike County court for trial later...