Word: medgar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Linking Arms. Within hours, Negroes were marching the hilly streets to protest the killing. State N.A.A.C.P. Field Secretary Charles Evers led some 2,000 to watch the changing of shifts at the Armstrong plant, which, he says, is infested with Ku Klux Klansmen. Evers, whose brother Medgar, another civil rights worker, was shot to death in front of his Jackson, Miss., house in 1963, warned whites that the patience of Natchez Negroes was just about exhausted. "Once we learn to hate, they're through," he said. "We can kill more people in one day than they've done...
...marriage is way out." Being one of Mississippi's better-known citizens, Byron De La Beckwith, 46, is thinking of taking a crack at state politics. After all, a lot of folks remember "Delay" right well from his two trials for the murder of Negro Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers in 1962. Both times his peers failed to reach a verdict. Now the gun collector from Greenwood has been scattering publicity shots around the state, will likely announce his candidacy for Lieutenant Governor in next spring's Democratic primary...
...League have given the Mississippi march limited and lukewarm support. Their reservations seemed well founded. At one point last week the marchers took up the chant: "Hey, hey, what do you say? White folks must go, must go!" Retorted Mississippi's N.A.A.C.P. Field Director Charles Evers, whose brother Medgar was assassinated three years ago as a result of his civil rights activities: "If we are marching these roads for black supremacy, we're doomed. I never will be antiwhite. I would be just as guilty of the racism and bigotry we've been fighting all these years...
...Grand Dragon of Mississippi's Ku Klux Klan, an unemployed truck driver named E. L. McDaniel, lives in Natchez. Another familiar figure there is Charles Evers, militant state field director for the N.A.A.C.P. and brother of murdered Medgar. Surprisingly, though these hostile organizations both have strong followings in the old riverfront town (pop. 12,000 whites, 11,000 Negroes), they managed to coexist-until six weeks ago. Then, when the president of the town's N.A.A.C.P. chapter was cruelly maimed by a booby-trap bomb wired to his automobile accelerator, Natchez Negroes could no longer contain their anger...
Then Zellner told us that he was tired. Just like a SNCC worker who spoke at Medgar Ever's funeral, he was tired of memorial services, and tears, and murder with no form of redress. I looked around and realized that we were all tired. Tired of hearing about the inaction of the FBI, tired of leaving meetings like this one, sick and tired of seeing the American Dream as a nightmare...