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Blackwell's charges referred to Kerciu's painting "America the Beautiful," a six-foot wide canvas of a Confederate battle flag smeared with the slogans of the rioters who tried to stop the admission of James Meredith to Ole Miss last September...
...charges of obscenity and desecrating the Confederate flag filed against G. Ray Kerciu, an assistant professor of art at the University of Mississippi, have been dropped, apparently after a deal between Kerciu's lawyer and Charles G. Blackwell, the Ole Miss law school senior who made them...
Kerciu's "America the Beautiful" was part of an exhibition of about 40 of his works which opened April 1 in the Ole Miss Fine Arts Center. University Provost Charles Noyes removed it and four other paintings April 7 after receiving protests from the Mississippi Citizens Council and the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Noyes said the painting's "slighting attitude toward the Confederate flag. . . gave distress and offense to many...
During the riot of September 30 Blackwell was a member of the state National Guard unit surrounding the Ole Miss Administrative building. While entering the campus he was struck by a rock hurled by the segregationist rioters...
...charges against Kerciu, which carry maximum penalties of $600 and six months imprisonment, also provoked a unanimous statement by the Ole Miss chapter of the American Association of University Professors defending Kerciu and assailing the Ole Miss administration for not supporting...