Word: rainey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...advocated fencing had a fairly cogent argument. They claimed that prosecution, rather than sobering local citizens, often 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...
...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...
...evidently Rainey and Price were apprehensive themselves, for late Sunday evening, they called COFO to say they would be around after all. "When we found out how many people were coming to register, we decided to postpone the trip a day," Price explained afterward...
Such cooperation between civil rights workers and local law officers is new in Neshoba County. Last June three COFO workers were-murdered after being held in jail for six hours on a speeding charge. Recently, five law enforcement officers (Rainey, Price, two policemen and a former sheriff) were arrested and indicted by a Federal grand jury for beating six Philadedphia Negroes, and thus violating their civil rights...
COFO workers in Philadelphia felt their return quickly. According to Ralph Featherstone, 25-year old Negro COFO worker from Washington, D.C., Rainey and Price circled the office four times that evening...