Word: mccombe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Methodist Church, a meeting place for civil rights groups, which had been burned to the ground five days before. Bombings and burnings seem fashionable in Mississippi nowadays. Recently, churches at Brandon, Ruleville, Clinton and Hattiesburg have been either damaged or destroyed by fire or bombs; a Negro home in McComb has been bombed, and the N.A.A.C.P. meeting place in Moss Point was set afire...
These techniques have been used over and over again throughout the South; two years ago, in McComb, Mississippi, Bob Zellner, a white field-secretary, was being beaten by a mob on the court house steps. Charles McDew (then Chairman of SNCC) and Robert Moses (now Mississippi Project Director) made their way through the crowd to Zellner, and stood shoulder to shoulder in front of him, to absorb the angry blows...
Four hooded Klansmen drove into a ramshackle neighborhood of McComb, Miss., stopped at the home of a destitute Negro couple with 13 children, banged on the door-and left a box of groceries. At a Klan rally in Atlanta, K.K.K. bullies surrounded Negro spectators, moved in ominously. The shouts of their leader stopped them: "Klansmen, Klansmen, leave those Negroes alone-they have a right to be here...
...Enterprise-Journal McComb, Miss...
...words of Judge Brumfield, who sentenced us, we are "cold claculators" who design to disrupt the racial harmony (harmonious since 1619) of McComb into racial strife and rioting; we, he said, are the leaders who are causing young children to be led like sheep to the pen to be slaughtered (in a legal manner). "Robert" he was addressing me, "haven't some of the people from your school been able to go down and register without violence in Pike Country?" I thought to myself that Southerners are most exposed when they boast...