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...imagines multitudes of people lurking around in his head and, I think, some he knows and some he doesn't. They're the people he thinks about, the people who infest his dreams. Sometimes he thinks he wants to get them all out in the open, like a policeman and line them up to see who they are. That's the kind of thing, I think, a schizophrenic would have. Except Slocum never is a schizophrenic; it's a schizoid formation, which normal people have, it's about being schizophrenic. And I'm using that deliberately...
Last summer, in a small town in Mississippi, a white policeman shot and killed a 21-year-old black youth, rekindling for three months the fear, tension, confusion and racism of the 1960s South, and triggering an economic boycott that recalled the early civil rights days of the Freedom Riders...
...police killing, but rather as an example of far-reaching social, political and economic discrimination. Soon after the boycott started, and when it became clearly effective, the United League vastly expanded the number and scope of their demands. Not only did they want Hanna and the other Byhalia policeman indicted for murder, they also demanded representation of blacks on the town board of aldermen, the county supervisor's board, and the local electric utility; an improved local sewage system; the addition of blacks to the police force; action to attract a doctor to the town; and increased employment opportunities...
...blacks were standing outside the Marshall County Court House in neighboring Holly Springs when two shotgun blasts were fired at them. No one was hit, and police later arrested a 19-year-old white youth, the son of a Holly Springs policeman, and charged him with intent to murder...
Lawful Secret. Significantly, neither Keen nor the policeman who allegedly accepted the bribe has been indicted. Prosecutor Pearcy maintains that the grand jury has given full consideration to the Star's revelations, but cannot find enough evidence to frame indictments for the offenses reported. He has little to say about the charges against the reporters: "Grand jury testimony is secret by law, and I can't tell you more about the evidence. The case will be set for trial and tried like any other case...