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...film, "Black Natchez," records the personal observations of Davied Neuman '62, research assistant in Social Psychology, and Edward Pincus, doctorial candidate in Philosophy. They spent four months in the summer of 1965 filming candid scenes of Negro emotional reaction to white threats and racial violence in the Mississippi town...
...some 2,000 to watch the changing of shifts at the Armstrong plant, which, he says, is infested with Ku Klux Klansmen. Evers, whose brother Medgar, another civil rights worker, was shot to death in front of his Jackson, Miss., house in 1963, warned whites that the patience of Natchez Negroes was just about exhausted. "Once we learn to hate, they're through," he said. "We can kill more people in one day than they've done in 100 years...
Mississippians know Evers as a man of his word, and Natchez whites seemed to take Jackson's murder more seriously than similar incidents in the past-most notably, the still-unsolved slaying of two young Negroes whose dismembered bodies were dredged from the Mississippi River in 1964. The board of aldermen put up a $25,000 reward for the killers, and Armstrong, which has so far pleaded inability to keep Klansmen off its payroll, chipped in another $10,000. Mississippi Governor Paul Johnson called the bombing an "act of savagery which stains the honor of our state...
...Natchez moderates ventured forth after the bombing to support the hitherto-lonely peacekeeping efforts of Mayor John Nosser, 67, a Lebanese-born immigrant who has the distinction of having had his house bombed by white racists and his small chain of dry-goods stores boycotted by Negroes. At week's end, Nosser, Police Chief J. T. Robinson and Sheriff Odell Anders appeared at a Negro protest rally and took part in a tableau the likes of which Mississippi had not seen before. Linking arms with Negro demonstrators, they sang We Shall Overcome...
Filling the Gap. Despite the new mood of concern in Natchez, however, Mississippi's standards of justice still leave something to be desired. More than a dozen Negroes and civil rights workers have either been murdered or died mysteriously there in the past three years without a single conviction by state courts and, in many cases, without even indictments. Last week the Justice Department, using a combination of old Reconstruction laws and new civil rights measures, none of them truly appropriate for so serious a crime as murder, moved to fill the gap in two of the more notorious...