Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Deputy Price followed them to the edge of town, later said he saw their car head south down Mississippi Highway 19 toward Meridian. Price was the last person known to have seen Schwerner, Chancy and Goodman. That was at 10:30 Sunday night...
When the three failed to show up in Meridian, COFO workers called the FBI, which at that time had no evidence on which to enter the case, and the Mississippi Highway Patrol, which declined to do more than issue a routine missing-persons bulletin. Then, Tuesday afternoon, a telephone tip on the station wagon's whereabouts came to the FBI office in Meridian. Agents rushed to the northeast corner of Neshoba County, found the gutted car in a blackberry thicket 40 feet off State Highway 21 near the dank Bogue Chitto Swamp. The site, twelve miles northeast of Philadelphia...
Side by Side. After the discovery of the car, Attorney General Robert Kennedy ordered a full-scale search by an army of FBI agents he had ordered into the state. The Mississippi Highway Patrol came alive, worked with the federals in beating the swamps of Neshoba County and questioning rural residents. President Johnson sent one time CIA Director Allen Dulles to Jack son to confer with Mississippi Governor Paul Johnson on the state's law-enforcement capabilities-and its willingness to cooperate. After a one-day trip, Dulles reported back that "a very real and very difficult problem which...
...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...
...then, acting in an outraged, all-night session, the N.A.A.C.P. Board of Directors adopted a resolution demanding that President Johnson "invoke the power of the Federal Government" by "taking over the administration of the state of Mississippi...