Word: neshoba
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...rallied them behind the defendants, who became town martyrs. This reasoning no longer holds weight. True, an angry mob of rednecks gathered to hiss the FBI agents upon the arrest of Sheriff Rainey. But that mob did not speak for the town. Rainey was no martyr to the ten Neshoba County clergymen, all of whom signed this statement: "There is an element of shame to all that there would be among us those accused of such a crime... We desire to see justice prevail...
...Neshoba Murders...
...Justice Department and the Federal government really wanted a fair hearing on the Neshoba murders, they would have gone to the Mississippi district court and asked for a different method of selecting Federal grand juries," he said. "If they don't do that, they are not really interested...
...their brief, they accused a formidable array of Mississippi officials and organizations of a "concerted, planned and organized conspiracy" to deny the Negro his rights. Among the defendants named: Sheriff L. C. Rainey and Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price of Neshoba County, where three young civil rights workers were murdered last summer, the white Citizens Councils, the Ku Klux Klan, and Americans for the Preservation of the White Race...
...rifle-packing widow is an exception. Apathy and fear keep most Neshoba Negroes from such open militance. One girl told a COFO field secretary that she liked to sit in the segregated section of the local movie theater. Only about 30 of the 1500 Negroes in Philadelphia show up at "mass meetings." And when COFO workers attempted for the first time to distribute two and one-half tons of food and clothing sent from Cleveland, Ohio, they found few takers...