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...visitor to our community finds an old-fashioned welcome and a degree of friendliness that exists in no other place . . . Numerous lakes and ponds offer fine year-around fishing, and for the hunter Neshoba County is a paradise...
...strength, in this case, to walk through mobs to get to school." Those were heroic days in the South, when obscure and unarmed people with names like Rosa Parks and James Meredith and Martin Luther King Jr. fought for black rights on obscure battlefields with names like Selma and Neshoba County. In one of those rare cases of the right man and time and place, Jimmy was there too, organizing, encouraging, marching, helping to "bear witness to the truth...
...film, which has a "relatively large budget," according to Ritchie, will portray the murder of three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964. The killing was conceived and carried out by two dozen leading citizens of Meridian and Neshoba counties, including lawmen, clergymen and businessmen...
...contrast with Alabama and Mississippi, the old Palmetto State weathered changes with relatively little trauma. Thus, it came as a shock in February 1968 when police fired into a mob of Negro college students during a racial disturbance, killing three and wounding 27. The "Orangeburg Massacre" joined Selma and Neshoba County in the litany of racial violence...
...will be made of some of his civil rights books. "One of the great tragedies is that we've never had realistic films about race hatred in the U.S.," he says. At the moment, a small studio is making preparations to film Huie's book about the Neshoba murders, Three Lives for Mississippi. Before the film could be made, however, Huie once again had to go through the distasteful experience of shelling out money to scruffy Klansmen, who then signed releases for portrayal rights. He is confident that the result will be worth it. "If films like this...