Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week there was more violence, and three more victims may have been added to the grim roster. They were two young white men and a Negro youth, all civil rights workers, missing in the murky, snake-infested swamps of eastern Mississippi, where the charred shell of their Ford station wagon was found...
...Trip South. The trail to the Mississippi swamp started on the serene, sycamore-shaded campus of the West ern College for Women at Oxford, Ohio. There, two weeks ago, an in doctrination course started for some 800 Northern college students who had volunteered to spend the summer in Mississippi working toward increased Negro voting registration. The project was sponsored by the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), a combine of four civil rights organizations, and by the National Council of Churches...
Among their Oxford students was Andrew Goodman, 20, son of a New York City building contractor and a junior at Queens College. The Mississippi project was Goodman's second active civil rights venture; he had been among those who picketed President Johnson at the World's Fair opening...
...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...
...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 in Moss Point was set afire...