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...Pelham, N.Y., wig manufacturer, was a Cornell graduate in 1961, a social worker on New York's Lower East Side before joining the Congress of Racial Equality two years ago. Last January, Schwerner and his wife Rita, 22, went South, opened a Negro community center in Meridian, Miss. It included a 10,000-book library donated by Northern students. Rita taught reading and citizenship, instructed Negro women in how to work sewing machines, while Mickey worked on Negro vote registration...
Chancy was one of Schwerner's most helpful aides. He was a slender Meridian Negro lad who had dropped out of high school as a sophomore, became a plasterer, eventually joined CORE. When COFO called for volunteer instructors for the Ohio training course, Chancy went with Schwerner...
...Saturday, June 20, their week-long Oxford orientation course completed, Schwerner, Chaney, Goodman and five other young civil rights workers got into a CORE-owned blue station wagon to drive to Meridian. They had scheduled their trip so as to avoid driving through Deep Dixie after dark, always a perilous proposition for integration workers in such states as Alabama and Mississippi. As they passed through Birmingham, Ala., a car loaded with white teenagers pulled alongside, screamed "Nigger lover!" at a white girl student sitting next to Chaney in the station wagon...
...Church Ruins. The next day, Sunday, June 21, the three men got haircuts from a Negro barber in Meridian. They planned to drive to Longdale, Miss., 50 miles away in adjoining Neshoba County, to inspect the ruins of the Mount Zion 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...
...year tenure as president, Rose has profoundly improved the intellectual climate of the University of Alabama, and he has infused Alabamans with his own passion for a school that aspires. Rose was born in Meridian, Miss., with little else but aspirations. As a boy he picked cotton in the fields at 500 a day. His father died when he was ten. He drove soft-drink trucks and plowed fields to earn the money to go to Kentucky's Transylvania College, where he majored in philosophy and went on to get a bachelor of divinity degree...