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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...

Author: By Lawrence W. Feinberg, | Title: Ole Miss Student Drops Charges Against Anti-Segregationist Artist | 4/23/1963 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Lawrence W. Feinberg, | Title: Ole Miss Student Drops Charges Against Anti-Segregationist Artist | 4/23/1963 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Lawrence W. Feinberg, | Title: Ole Miss Student Drops Charges Against Anti-Segregationist Artist | 4/23/1963 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Lawrence W. Feinberg, | Title: Ole Miss Student Drops Charges Against Anti-Segregationist Artist | 4/23/1963 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Lawrence W. Feinberg, | Title: Ole Miss Student Drops Charges Against Anti-Segregationist Artist | 4/23/1963 | See Source »

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