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...that may range from a factory whistle to an organ note to a kissing sound captured right at home. Then, by using electronic machinery that might have baffled his father, he takes the "raw" sounds, breaks them up into components, forms rhythmic patterns with them, amplifies and filters them till they bear no resemblance to their former selves. After such treatment, the kiss, for instance, sounds like three people in high heels kicking out a wicked beat...
When the Emmett Till case first became news in Mississippi, the whole state was aroused against the crime, and anxious to see justice done. But the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (along with Life magazine and other Northern journals which referred to "lynching") obscured the issues so completely that the white people of the state retreated to their old position of distrust of the North and to white supremacy. The cause of better racial relations was deeply harmed. Another instance in which the NAACP seems to have hurt itself here was by its recent protest over...
...contrast to the NAACP's handling of both the Till case and Boyd's decision was the reaction of two social workers, Dr. David Minter and Gene Cox, in another case widely publicized here. Minter and Cox were ordered to leave Holmes County by a mass meeting of the Citizens' Council because they worked for integration. The first action the two men took, however, was to call up every New York and Washington religious and political group which might protest and tell it not to say anything for the present...
Just criticism of the Till trial did, of course, exist, Held as it was in an almost exclusively agricultural county, the trial could not avoid having a jury composed of dirt farmers, who have had less exposure to post-war shifts in attitude than any other group in the state. This fact was noted from the onset and motivated the prosecution's legal maneuvers to have the trial moved to an adjacent county where industry has brought a softening of racial ill-feeling...
...have been done at all some years ago). It then went about trying to get a conviction. The two prosecuting attorneys made every attempt to get witnesses and evidence, and the judge was unanimously praised for his fairness, especially in having closed hearings on the racially tender issue of Till's supposed remarks...