Word: neshoba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twelve-car motorcade pulled away from the COFO office in Philadelphia Miss. on Monday and headed for the Neshoba County courthouse, carrying four COFO workers and 39 local Negro citizens who wanted to register...
When cars arrived and prospective registrants piled out, they were escorted up the court-house steps by Neshoba county sheriff Lawrence Rainey and deputy sheriff Cecil Price, both of whom were recently indicted for depriving Philadelphia Negroes of their civil rights...
...weeks, the front-porch gossip around Philadelphia, Miss., was that Neshoba County Sheriff Lawrence Rainey and Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price, a pair of beefy upholders of backwater Southern justice, would soon be indicted by a fed eral grand jury in Biloxi, Miss., investigating civil rights abuses in Mississippi. Sure enough, last week they were...
When the jury handed down indictments late last week, the murders were not mentioned, although the jury is to reconvene Oct. 21, and federal officials made it clear the case is by no means closed. Rainey, Price and three other Neshoba countians, including two Philadelphia city cops, were arraigned on two counts of depriving local Negroes of their rights by "arresting, incarcerating and detaining" them. In one case, Rainey, Price & Co. were accused of "striking, beating and whipping" a Negro, in another of clubbing a Negro with a blunt instrument. The maximum penalty on each count is one year...
...time, attention turned to Sheriff Lawrence Rainey of Neshoba County, where the car was found. Rainey, it was learned, had killed two Negroes in the county in the past four years. Explaining it, he said: "The first had me down choking me, and the second was shooting at me." Rainey still had not joined in the search...