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...include problems of economics and civil rights. But it was still basically a peace group, and its member's interests had outgrown Tocsin's boundaries. When Anthony Graham-White '65, Tocsin president wrote to its other three officers this summer, for example, two of his letters were directed to Meridian, Miss., and the third went to a community project in Chester...

Author: By Ellen Lake, | Title: SDS Marks Change in Campus 'Left' | 10/3/1964 | See Source »

...Meridian COFO office, for example, called the FBI at 9 p.m. on June 21, notifying them that the trio of workers was missing. Had the FBI acted then, with a routine visit or phone call to local jails, Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman might be alive today...

Author: By Peter Cummings, | Title: The Mississippi Summer Project: Holly Springs Participant Reports Nervous Beginnings, Eerie Tension | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

...Meridian COFO office, for example, called the FBI at 9 p.m. on June 21, notifying them that the trio of workers was missing. Had the FBI acted then, with a routine visit or phone call to local jails, Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman might be alive today...

Author: By Peter Cummings, | Title: The Mississippi Summer Project: Holly Springs Participant Reports Nervous Beginnings, Eerie Tension | 9/22/1964 | See Source »

...illusions that the millenium will soon descend on Meridian or Jackson or Batesville. At best, within a reasonable number of years, there will be a stalemate of mutual respect. Only then will the longer process of assimilation and acculturation take place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Wages of Virtue | 8/7/1964 | See Source »

President Johnson ordered 200 sailors from the Meridian Naval Auxiliary Air Station into Neshoba County to join in the search (the White House, through a mistake, at first announced that the sailors were marines, bringing screams of anguish from segregationists about another federal invasion of the South). Armed only with sticks to protect themselves against the water moccasins and rattlers that abound in the area, the sailors tucked and taped up their pants legs to ward off mosquitoes and chiggers, began poking under every bush and peering down every abandoned well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: The Grim Roster | 7/3/1964 | See Source »

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