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...that their forms could not have been fully perceived at ground level by their creators. Mound building had ceased by the time the first Europeans probed inland in the 16th century. But traces of the practice persisted in the burial rites of such tribes as the Creeks and the Natchez...
...scramble for subleases, drilling rights and tips on new finds, Oneida has become the newest boomtown headquarters of the oil industry. Cadillacs and Lincolns with out-of-state license plates cruise the streets. D.B. Biglane, rotund in his checked suit, swoops in almost weekly from Natchez, Miss., in his rented DC-3. Like most visiting oilmen, he wheels and deals at Tobe's Motel and Restaurant. Owner Tobe Philips, who now drives a Cadillac himself, has nearly doubled his prices and started a 16-room addition. Across town, the B & Z Motel is putting up visitors in trailers...
...civil rights movement focused on Mississippi in 1964, the legislature gave patrolmen full power to enforce "all the laws of the state," including those supporting segregation. In 1965, the patrol handled the transfer of 250 civil rights workers to the Parchman State Penitentiary after they were arrested in Natchez. According to a lawsuit now before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the troopers encouraged harsh treatment of the prisoners, who were stripped and forced to take strong laxatives; one testified that she was made to use her slip as a sanitary napkin...
...Kind of Segregation. In districts where blacks are in the majority, however, opening day brought only a new kind of segregation as whites abandoned the public schools to the black invasion. In Natchez, where Baptist churches are pooling their resources to form private schools, a third of the city's 4,500 white students failed to register for classes. In Wilkinson County, where Confederate President Jefferson Davis spent his boyhood and blacks now outnumber whites by at least 3 to 1, only two white children-11-year-old Annette Brown and her brother, Thomas, 10-showed...
Guns were, however, very much in evidence at Evers' inauguration. At the inaugural ball in nearby Natchez-apparently the first integrated dance in that city's history-black deputies were joined by FBI agents, local police and firemen, while two National Guard units were on alert. As it turned out, the only excesses in Natchez that night were the profits of local bars, which saw only one color in the Evers celebration-green...