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...September, one month after the bodies of three civil rights workers were found hidden beneath an earthen dam near Philadelphia, Miss., a Justice Department lawyer went before a federal grand jury to seek indictments against several suspects. Instead, the jury indicted five Mississippians-among them Neshoba County Sheriff Lawrence Rainey and Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price -not for involvement in the triple murder but for violation of the civil rights of local Negroes. Whatever evidence the Justice Department offered in connection with the murder of the civil rights workers was apparently insufficient to convince the jury. The Justice Department lost...
...committed got into print. The Department of Justice took its time in building a case with FBI evidence, but at last decided to move. Agents had already secured at least one confession-and enough other evidence, apparently, to warrant a roundup. And so, early this month, the FBI arrested Rainey, Price and 19 other men on charges of complicity in the murders (TIME...
...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...
...more significantly, Rainey was no martyr to the local newspaper editor who wrote: "We must not cut off our noses to spite our faces. It means too much to our community to say that we won't obey the law to the best of our ability (for) our economy will suffer, and prospective industrialists will surely pass us by." These sentiments may not be particularly noble; and that is the point. The path of justice and the road to riches have finally merged for a large segment of the population of this small, representative Mississippi town. Respectable Mississippians...
...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...