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...death" [July 3] must have been welcomed in the South, If the three young men had chosen to spend a less dedicated, more relaxed summer, if Postman William Moore had stayed off the highways, if the Negro girls had slept late and not attended their Birmingham church, and if Medgar Evers had never joined the N.A.A.C.P., there would still be violence and death in the South. There always has been...
...vibrant lilt, she toyed with her audience for nearly an hour. She sang with them until they caught her playful spirit, then to them, then about them. She laughed with them at the cleverness of an Illinois coffeehouse, called Know Where, cried with them at the tragic death of Medgar Evers, cajoled them with a traditional devil song, caught them with a hammering message of the modern devil. "Masters...
Despite its high purpose, the Negro revolution breeds violence and death. Among its victims have been Baltimore Postman William Moore, shot on an Alabama highway while on a one-man civil rights march; Mississippi N.A.A.C.P. Leader Medgar Evers, shot in the back by a bushwhacker; and those four Negro girls killed in the bombing of a Birmingham church...
...then, into this atmosphere of calm, cool and collected reasoning, came word of the three missing civil rights workers in Mississippi. And in that instant the whole tone of the N.A.A.C.P. convention changed. Charles Evers, brother of Mississippi's assassinated N.A.A.C.P. Leader Medgar Evers, passionately demanded that the delegates stage a protest march on the Department of Justice. "Let's go," cried the delegates, and only with difficulty did their national leaders dissuade them from marching instantly...
...star witness for the defense was "Delay" Beckwith himself, who punctuated his testimony with soft "suhs." "Did you kill Medgar Evers?" asked Lott. "No, suh." Was Beckwith in Jackson the night of the murder? "No, suh." At one point, Lott handed Beckwith the Enfield to examine. Beckwith leaned forward in the witness chair, aimed the gun over the jury's heads and pulled the trigger. Said he: "I couldn't say this is my scope or my gun." Anyway, Beckwith added pleasantly, his Enfield with a telescopic sight had been stolen from his car two days before Evers...