Word: schwerner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price, who, along with 15 other local whites, last week was ordered to stand trial in a federal court on Sept. 26 in connection with the killing of the three rights workers. "Oh, yes," said King, "you're the one who had Schwerner and the other fel lows in jail?" "Yes, sir," said Price with a touch of pride...
Barred from the sidewalk, King held a memorial service in the street. "We all know this county, where Andrew Goodman, James Chancy and Michael Schwerner were brutally murdered," he began. Turning halfway toward Price, he said: "And I believe in my heart that the murderers are some where around me at this moment." "They're right behind you," chuckled a white onlooker, to roars of delight from fellow townsmen. Said King, "I'm not afraid of any man. Before I will be a slave, I will be dead in my grave." Shouted a chorus of whites...
...both shot to death near Liberty, Mississippi; four girls, killed in the Birmingham church bombing; Johnny Robinson, a 16-year-old shot by police after the Birmingham bombings; William L. Moore, the white postman murdered near Attala, Alabama; Medgar Evers, assassinated in Mississippi; James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, lynched near Philadelphia, Mississippi; Lemuel A. Penn, the educator slain near Athens, Georgia; the Negro burned to death in Louisiana last fall; the two multilated bodies found in the Mississippi River last summer; the man recently shot to death by police in a Jackson, Mississippi jail. At least a dozen...
...case of Jimmy Lee Jackson, the Justice Department should seek to prosecute his killer under Section 242, Title 18 of the U.S. Code of 1950. Those suspected of slaying Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner were indicted under this law. But Section 242 alone is no remedy; it entails only a one year sentence, can be applied only against state officials, and the final decision still comes from a Southern jury...
...land where methods of controlling thought and action are probably as strong as those employed by Eastern European Communist states. For protection I'll get false membership cards in the Ku Klux Klan and White Citizens Council. I don't have the guts of Schwerner, Chancy or Goodman...