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When a Harvard Summer News reporter called the sheriff's office in Selma, he was informed there was "no Mr. Wiley in jail here. We got a nigger named Wiley down here though. Is that who you mean?" The holiday weekend and the sheriff's delaying tactics kept Wiley and his co-workers in jail for close to a week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pound's Death Began Summer on Somber Note; Bickford Arrests, NASA Decision Highlight Events | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

Many whites are just curious about the "commie-Jew-beatnik-nigger-lovers" that have invaded their town. Most of the freedom workers seem polite and friendly and this puzzles many whites. A white female cashier in a Holly Springs five and ten stopped serving customers in order to get a better look at the group of young men escorting Negroes to the court house; then she commented to a friend, "I didn't know communists were so handsome...

Author: By Peter Cummings, | Title: The Mississippi Summer Project: Holly Springs Participant Reports Nervous Beginnings, Eerie Tension | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

Many whites are just curious about the "commie-Jew-beatnik-nigger-lovers" that have invaded their town. Most of the freedom workers seem polite and friendly and this puzzles many whites. A white female cashier in a Holly Springs five and ten stopped serving customers in order to get a better look at the group of young men escorting Negroes to the court house; then she commented to a friend, "I didn't know communists were so handsome...

Author: By Peter Cummings, | Title: The Mississippi Summer Project: Holly Springs Participant Reports Nervous Beginnings, Eerie Tension | 9/22/1964 | See Source »

...front. Sims was sitting in the back. Sims told me to fall back and follow the Negroes, and I stayed back 100 to 200 yds. I asked the others what they were going to do, and Sims said, 'I'm going to kill me a nigger.' Both Sims and Myers told me to pass the car occupied by the Negroes from Washington. When I came alongside the Negroes' car, both Myers and Sims fired shotguns into the Negroes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Georgia: An Extreme Case | 9/11/1964 | See Source »

...never seems to occur to them that Nigger Heaven is crowded, that there isn't another seat, that something has to be done. It doesn't seem to occur to them, either, that we sit above them, that we can drop things down on them and crush them, that we can swoop down from this Nigger Heaven and take their seats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: No Place Like Home | 7/31/1964 | See Source »

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