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When cars arrived and prospective registrants piled out, they were escorted up the court-house steps by Neshoba county sheriff Lawrence Rainey and deputy sheriff Cecil Price, both of whom were recently indicted for depriving Philadelphia Negroes of their civil rights...
...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...
...trial period over, Mike last week enrolled as a regular M.S.U. student, youngest in the school's history and almost certainly the youngest student to win admission to a U.S. college in nearly a century. Among other U.S. prodigies: William Rainey Harper, first president of the University of Chicago, who was ten when he entered Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio, in 1866. The late Norbert Wiener, mathematician and pioneer of the science of cybernetics, was eleven when he entered Tufts College...