| Folder 2: 1961 |
| Dec. 16 |
-1st African American to run for Congress in 20th Century: R. L. T. Smith
-boycott of Capitol St. in Jackson |
| 23 |
-1st public Civil Rights hearing is held
-Clarksdale boycott
-thank you note for boycott support by Medgar W. Evers, “NAACP
Appeals to Negro, White Citizens” |
| 30 |
-“U. S. Justice Department Files Suit Concerning Voter Test”
-police brutality in Tylertown and Prentiss |
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| Folder 3: 1962 |
| Jan. 6 |
-African American leaders jailed for conspiracy to boycott in Clarksdale
and Coahoma County
-Medgar W. Evers’ letter to the editor |
| 20 |
-NAACP files suit to desegregate recreational facilities in Jackson
-“Law Against Desegregation Actively Sought”
-“Ole Miss Integration Suit Delayed” |
| Feb. 24 |
-police brutality in Jackson |
| Mar. 10 |
-Aaron Henry jailed on fake charges |
| 24 |
-Hinds official shoots released prisoner
-Nuclear testing by Kennedy administration |
| Apr. 14 |
-“Injunction Granted Against Forrest County Registrar”
-African American G. I. killed after returning to hometown on leave, no
jury indictment of the policeman who shot him |
| 28 |
-African American boycott of Jackson City buses
-7 jailed in Huntsville, AL, for lunch counter sit-in |
| May 5 |
- Human relations council formed
-African American voter increase in Florida
-Freedom fighter surrenders, though expecting a baby |
| 26 |
-“White Man Kills Black Man Over Lover”
-Court frees Episcopal ministers
-“Kennedy is not another Lincoln”
-2 arrested in courtroom for sitting in the white section |
| June 9 |
-“Prominent Jackson Business Woman Arrested at Memphis Airport”
-“Jackson Police Arrest Protesters on Federal Property” |
| 16 |
-“Jackson Municipal Airport Supposedly Desegregated”
-“Federal Courts Save Meredith”
-African American youth brutally beaten
-“Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt to Chair Inquiry on Southern Civil Rights Violations” |
| 23 |
-“Voter Registration Vital”
-“4 End 17 Days in Jail” |
| 30 |
-“Ole Miss Will Integrate in July”
-Jackson attorney, William L. Higgs, and college students arrested for
riding in a car in an mixed group
-book review: Fight For Freedom: The Story of the NAACP |
| July 7 |
-Citizen Education Workshop: “Functions of Mississippi State Government”
-“A July 4th Message From J. Edgar Hoover” |
| 14 |
-Legislative districts restructuring
-Citizen Education Workshop: “Functions of Mississippi State Government” part 2
-“Meredith May Have to Wait Until September” |
| 21 |
-Hart’s bakery employees on strike
-Greenwood man dies while on county work farm |
| 28 |
-Employees of Hart’s bakery continue to strike
-“Kennard in Prison, Far From Ole Miss”
-“Mississippi Voter Registration Requirements”
-“The Law” by James Meredith |
| Aug. 4 |
-Wife of Clarksdale Civil Rights leader, Mrs. Aaron Henry’s, teaching contract not renewed after 10 years at the job
-book review: Career of Jim Crow
-“History of Clyde Kennard” |
| 11 |
-laborers strike at 14 sites of Jackson
-sheriff threatens student worker at Holly Springs
-“5 Affidavits Expose Airport Bias in Restaurant Dining Room”
-“History of Clyde Kennard”
-changes to the voting laws in Greenwood |
| 25 |
-“Free Press Reporter Has Camera Taken; Threatened’ -strike ends
-“Parents Determined to Enter Children in Schools This Fall”
-Citizen Education Workshop: “Campaigning for Political Office” |
| Sept. 1 |
-“Congress Says ‘No Poll Tax’”
-“Free Press Reporter Has Camera Returned” |
| 8 |
-Forrest County registrar, Theron C. Lynd will stand trial
-New Industry on the way to Mississippi
-“Problems Puzzle Klan: Horses, Robes, Torches”
-“History of Clyde Kennard” |
| 15 |
-“Meredith to Enroll”
-“Shotgunning in Ruleville; 2 Injured in Ambush”
-“Hattiesburg sees Lynd Trial”
-Citizen Education Workshop: “Our Federal Protections”
-“History of Clyde Kennard” |
| 22 |
-“President Kennedy Says ‘Deserve Protection’”
-“U. S. Marshals Attend Meredith”
-Hattiesburg registrar trial
-“History of Clyde Kennard” |
| Oct. 6 |
-“Meredith in College; Doesn’t Take Never”
-“Some Students on Campuses in South Support Integration”
-“KKK Disbands: No Response to War Call”
-Colonial Bakers get contract in Mississippi
-Mississippi businessmen oppose mob violence |
| 13 |
-“Terror Reigns Throughout State; Bombings, Shootings- But No Deaths”
-“Nation Pulls for Meredith” |
| 20 |
-Thousands boycott state fair
-Policeman kills African American motorist
-“Oxford Minister Speaks Out on Ole Miss Mess” |
| 27 |
-“Apportionment Plan Up for Vote”
-Arrests, shootings, and intimidation related to voter registration |
| Nov. 3 |
-“R. F. K. Calls Barnett Liar: Files Charges in Court”
-“Conference Will Discuss South’s Rural Problems”
-“Ex – Ole Miss Editor Speaks Out About ‘False Impressions’”
-African American slain while attacking officer |
| 10 |
-“President Forbids Discrimination in Companies With Federal Contracts”
-“Worker Fired Because He Sought Better Job”
-“Meeting to Aid Rural Dwellers”
-Educational series: “How to Meet a Child’s Needs” |
| 17 |
-“Ross Barnett Suffers Stinging Vote Defeat”
-“Leflore Denies Food to 22,000 to Force End to Voter Registration”
-Planters in the Delta threaten mass evictions for African Americans who try to register to vote
-Student conference held on the future of the State
-Citizen Education series on parenting: “The Importance of Answering Questions” |
| 24 |
-“Miss Union Leader Attacks Hate Group”
-“Clarksdale Women Fired for Striking Her Male Attacker”
-“Special Legislative Session Considers Reapportionment”
-Citizen Education series on parenting: “The Importance of the Family Group” |
| Dec. 1 |
-“Jackson Plant Ordered to Rehire Union Men”
-“Appeal Seeks to Liberate Kennard”
-“Ole Miss Editor Supports Freedom of Association; Faces Students’ Censure”
-Citizen Education series on parenting: “Children Need New Experiences”
-“1960 Elections Suggest New Politics for the South” |
| 8 |
-Grant hearing occurs to consider Kennard’s petition
-“’Yellow Dog’ Clause Verifies Intimidation” |
| 22 |
-“Rural Areas Lose Influence in New Reapportionment Proposal”
-“Mississippi Students Seek Justice for Kennard”
-“Arrest Ruleville High Students in Warning of Rights Supporters”
-petition to free Clyde Kennard |
| 29 |
-“U. S. Shall Prosecute Barnett and Johnson: Charges Gov. Blocked Meredith”
-“4 Justice Department Suits Aimed at Voting Bias: Forrest County”
-“Meridian Workers Vote for Unions”
-“The Top 10 Stories of Mississippi, 1962”
-“More Pickets Jailed as Capitol Street Boycott Continues in Jackson” |
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| Folder 4: 1963 |
| Jan. 5 |
-“Picketers Attempt to Disqualify Judge Cox”
-Plea of Kennard’s freedom filed with state Supreme Court
-2 youths with aid for destitute families jailed on drug charge
-Executive Board of the Association of American Law Schools may suspend membership of Ole Miss law school for failing to respect the law |
| 12 |
-“Conservatives Lose House Rules Battle”
-“Ministers Speak Out on Discrimination”
-2 ministers receive threats and pressure after signing statement
-more justice department suits aim to stop voting discrimination |
| 19 |
-“Mississippi Group Calls for Civil Rights Hearings”
-“Meredith Hits Constant Harassment at U. M.”
-“Kennard Appeals to Federal Court, State Supreme Court Rejects Plea”
-“Pastor Wins Backing of Church Board on Position Against Bias”
-petition to free Clyde Kennard
-“Racists Brainwash White Southerners in Childhood” |
| 23 |
-U. S. Supreme Court denies Mississippi appeal of Meredith orders
-“Garment Plants Brought to Trial for Unfair Labor Practices”
-“What Is a Labor Union?” |
| Mar. 2 |
-3 young children arrested in Clarksdale
-125 fill out voter forms in Greenwood
-U. S. Secretary of Labor, W. Willard Wortz, asked to rescind his approval of 3 segregated training programs
-“The Law of the Land”
-“What is a Labor Union?” |
| 9 |
-“Parents Ask for Injunctions to Open Jackson Schools”
-“Vow All – Out Vote Drive in Leflore – Demand Federal Protection Following Attempted Killing”
-“President Requests Federal Voting Referees for the South”
-Dick Gregory will help Mississippi provide Federal surplus food to needy African Americans
-“States’ Rights, Responsibilities” |
| 16 |
-More gunfire when Greenwood citizens attempt voter registration
-U. S. suit attacks most states’ voting laws
-Prisoners at Parchman are being motivated to pick cotton with the revival of the use of a leather whip known as “Black Annie”
-MSU’s basketball team to be sent to integrated tournament (after college board voted that it was okay)
-“Leake County Parents File Desegregation Suit”
-“An Explanation of the New Presidential Primary Law” |
| 23 |
-Citizens of Quitman form voter league
-Clarksdale police threaten students from Iowa State
-Attorney for U. S. Civil Rights Commission arrested for entering the
African American waiting room
-“Frazier Will File Third Appeal for Southern U.”
-“Governor Ross Barnett’s Speech Brings Roars of Laughter from
Harvard Students” |
| 30 |
-“125,000 School Children Sit Out Lunch – Too Poor”
-“Mississippi Senators Eastland and Stennis Visited by Picketers”
-Ross is laughed at when he speaks at Harvard Law about progress in the South (part 2)
-“75 Children in Biloxi Ask for Desegregation” |
| Apr. 6 |
-Many want to vote in Greenwood and ask for Federal protection
-“Citizens Charge Greenville Hospital Maintains Inadequate Accommodations” |
| 20 |
-“4 Citizens Report Violent and Economic Repercussions After Seeking Voter Registration”
-“Congressman Diggs to See President About Delta Situation”
-ACLU charge that all rights of an African American man accused of raping a white girl in Canton, MS, have been ignored |
| 27 |
-“Minimum Wages Excludes Farmers, Other Workers”
-Canton man charges police brutality in Madison
-“Kennedy Says Can’t Cut Off State Money”
-Practice sections of the Mississippi constitution for the voter registration test |
| May 11 |
-Mississippi vote drive gathers speed
-“Clarksdale Drug Store Damaged in Blast”
-“Bomb Thrown into Itta Bena Meeting”
-“Ruleville Ladies Lose Jobs After They Try to Register to Vote”
-Three men charge Clinton police of brutality |
| 18 |
-“Unions Seek to Stop Use of Out of State Low Wage Labor”
-“18 Ruleville Women Come Together to Make Quilts to Sell Nationally in Light of Lost Jobs”
-T. V. newsman, Bob Neblett, told to apologize to the public for using the word “nigger” |
| 25 |
- Protests, sit – ins, and picketing planned for Jackson if demands not met
-“Reprisals Hit Delta Citizens Active in Voter Movements”
-“Minimum Wage Among Bills Proposed for Farm Labor”
-“’Right to Work’ Laws Aim to Destroy Labor Unions” |
| June 1 |
-Meredith to speak
-27 people arrested in Jackson demonstrations
-“Chemical Workers Fight Union-busters in Delta”
-“Rankin Sheriff Admits He Beat Man in Court House” |
| 15 |
-“Evers Murdered – Civil Rights Leader Shot in Back”
-“Charge Winona Police Jailed and Beat 3 Delta Women”
-“McDowell Enrolls at Ole Miss Law School; No Riot Repetition”
-“Jackson Youths Parade Despite Injunctions that Demonstration is Illegal”
-“Federal Court Frees Whites Arrested at Ole Miss Riots” |
| 22 |
-“1000s Mourn Evers”
-Thousands of people were arrested after protesting the Evers murder on Capitol Street
-“Clarksdale Pickets Aimed at Discrimination in Churches” |
| 29 |
-“Byron de La Beckwith Held in Evers Murder as Suspect”
-“Shotgun Blast Strikes Youths near Canton Voter Meeting”
-As voter campaigns in Itta Bena and Greenwood grow, many people are jailed for participation
-“President Kennedy’s Civil Rights Bill Asks End to Job, School Discrimination" |
| July 6 |
-“Beckwith Indicted”
-Justice department defends rights of 51 Citizens from the Delta
-“Ministers Vow New Protests” |
| 20 |
-U. S. Court Convicts Lynd, Forrest County Registrar, of Contempt of Court for failure to register African American voters
-“D. A. Asks Mental Checkup for Accused Evers Killer”
-“2 Whites Indicted for Clarksdale Bombing”
-“In Case of Arrest – Know Your Legal Rights”
-“Jackson Man Claims Companies Hired Him to Spy on Unions” |
| 27 |
-“Laurel Women Seek School Desegregation”
-“Beckwith Removed to Mental Hospital; Trial Postponed”
-300 people protest in Jackson |
| 30 |
-Greenville boycott
-Aaron Henry and 51 others jailed in Clarksdale for protesting
-23,000 African Americans are now registered voters
-Group hopes to teach people how to teach classes on citizenship
-“These Are the Candidates: 3 Men Seeking Term as Governor”
-“State Law Provides Way for Unregistered to Vote”
-copy of actual ballot to be given out on August 6 |
| Aug. 10 |
-81 jailed in Anti-segregation protest in Clarksdale
-“Mississippi Judge Orders Doctors at Whitfield State Hospital to Cease Mental Tests on Byron de la Beckwith”
-White man shoots 5 African Americans; Canton judge only fines him $500
-“Mrs. Noelle Henry Sues to Win Back Teaching Post”
-“733 Vote for Freedom” |
| 17 |
-“Beckwith Released from Mental Tests”
-“Pentagon’s Actions Attack Segregation near Dixie-Bases”
-C. R. group charges police brutality
-“Buses Provided to Transport Mississippians to Washington”
-“Greenwood Citizenship School Trains People to Be Teachers” |
| 24 |
-“Ole Miss Graduates Meredith”
-“Governor’s Race in Crucial Week”
-Suit in Clarksdale Court attacks the injunction prohibiting picketing or distribution of leaflets |
| 31 |
-African American mount massive protest by setting up Vote for Freedom polling places
-“Mahalia and Others Top Jackson Movement Show”
-“243 from State Make D. C. Trip”
-“Tougaloo Plays Role in Fight for Rights”
-“Education: Separate and Unequal – States Statistics Remove All Doubt” |
| Sept. 7 |
-“Mississippians Tell of Great American Demonstration”
-“Marchers Mobbed in Meridian”
-“March Paced by Mississippi Singers”
-“Bi-Racial Committee Wanted; Laurel Mayor is Attentive”
-Dixicrats say GOP here will help the African Americans be heard
-“Johnson’s Win - State’s Loss” |
| 14 |
-“Mayor Turns Down Civil Rights Inquiry”
-“Beckwith Awaits Decision of Trial”
-Sidewalks needed
-Justice Department charges policemen with beating African American prisoners
-African American crossing guards hired |
| 21 |
-2 petitions call for school integration in Clarksdale and Biloxi
-editorial: “Human Limits”
-Plans for 200,000 African Americans to vote in the next election |
| 28 |
-African American shot in side and back of neck by Delta police who claim it was self – defense
-Cleve McDowell carries an a concealed weapon onto Ole Miss’s campus and is expelled
-“Tougaloo Undisturbed by Fund Withdrawal”
-“Boycott Proves Worth as Weapon” |
| Oct. 5 |
-McDowell maintains he carried the weapon to protect himself from harassment to and from campus
-African Americans decide on a candidate
-4 African American policemen hired in Meridian |
| 12 |
-“Aaron Henry, Candidate for Governor”
-“Path to Church Lead 3 to Jail”
-Vote in Pascagoula feels the effects of African American voters
-Biography of Aaron Henry |
| 19 |
-Council of Federated Organizations elects Rev. R. Edwin King to run for Lt. Governor of Mississippi
-Charles Evers and 3 others stand up to Meridianites’ intimidation to leave the white waiting room at the bus station.
-“Jackson Women’s Tea Honors Cross Guards”
-Miss Mary Ann Champion is crowned Homecoming Queen at Lanier |
| Nov. 2 |
-“Candidates for Freedom: Henry, King”
-African Americans in areas where local officials kept Vote for Freedom polling places from opening may vote in the mail with“underground ballots”
-“Minister Decries Church Segregation”
-“What to Do on Election Days?” |
| 9 |
-“90,000 Vote for Henry”
-“Family Service Association Provides Guidance for Families”
-“Johnson Refused Consent of Governed”
-“Vicksburg, The Sick City” |
| 16 |
-Cotton growers in poverty
-“Meredith Speaks on Education”
-Adult education classes offered at Jim Hill high school
-“Ole Miss Prof. Denounces State as Corrupt, Enslaved”
-“Mississippi Learns from Controlled Textbooks”
-“Womanpower Continues to Benefit Community”
-“Results from Governor’s Race” |
| 23 |
-Few taking advantage of adult education opportunities
-High school administrators fail to inform their students of opportunities available to them through the Meredith Education Fund
-“Sheriff, School Superintendent – Use, Abuse of Public Office”
-Unofficial Freedom Vote Totals for Henry
-“Bishops Ban Bias Churches Still Shut” |
| 30 |
-“Nation Mourns Kennedy” (picture of Johnson consoling Mrs. Kennedy)
-“Leaders Lament Untimely Death”
-“Courthouse Segregated”
-“Beckwith Gets Date for Trial” |
| Dec. 7 |
-U. S. Congressmen receive excerpts from African American newspaper that falsely portrays African Americans in Mississippi as satisfied
-“Needed: Adequate Education”
-“Civil Rights Bill; What It Would Mean”
-Political cartoon honoring Kennedy
-“Ole Miss Professors Rap Policies of State” |
| 14 |
-Church members tricked into buying an organ from Capitol Street Store (Werleins for Music)
-“All White Jury Frees Police of Beating Charge”
-“Movement Leaders Request ‘No Christmas Decorations’” |
| 21 |
-The Jackson Civil Rights Movement leads African Americans in foregoing Christmas decorations to observe a mood of mourning for Kennedy and Evers
-Ministers vow not to participate in holiday decoration contests
-“Letter Blasts Local Editor”
-“Police Continue Clergy Arrests” |
| 28 |
-“Evers Refutes ‘Tank’ – ‘We’re United Not Violent’”
-“Army Still Segregated” |
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| Folder 5: 1964 |
| Jan. 11 |
-Sheriff in Holmes County accused of not allowing an African American to pay his poll taxes
-Cotton owners steal sharecroppers’ profits
-“Pistol Whipping in Canton”
-“Time Magazine Hails M. L. King the ‘Man of the Year’”
-“Meredith Picks Africa to Continue Education” |
| 18 |
-“McComb Shooting Damages Homes”
-Committee hears about vote denials
-“Meredith Talk Costs D-J Job”
-“Cox Made to Rule on Church Arrests”
-“Court Denies Lynd Plea; COFO to Test Registrar” |
| 25 |
-“Bonanza Star Refuses to Attend All – White Show”
-African American citizens of Canton declared non-violent boycott of Madison
-Henry Denounces Recreation Center Specifically for African Americans
-“Beckwith Trial Begins; Conviction Doubtful” |
| Feb. 1 |
-“Poll Tax Outlawed”
-More entertainers refuse to perform in Jackson due to segregated audiences at Coliseum
-“Without Arrests – 300 in Hattiesburg Demand Ballot Rights”
-“91 Jurors Elude Evers Murder Trial” |
| 8 |
-Upsurge of KKK activity (burned crosses, etc.)
-Rifle carrying policemen shot 3 students while mob protested city’s failure to erect a traffic light to make Lynch Street safer
-“Evidence Mounts Against Beckwith – Prints Linked”
-“Army Official Denies Segregation”
-“Workshop Discusses Religious Freedom” |
| 15 |
-African American in Liberty, MS, shot after harassment by police and other whites
-“Canton Policemen Beat 2 Youths”
-“360,000 Boycott Schools in N. Y. C. “
-“ In Beckwith Trial – White Jury Cornered” (includes Beckwith’s own statement on racism)
-“C. R. Bill Passes House, Senate Debates Next” |
| 22 |
-Mississippi legislature gives $200,000 to lobby to fight C. R. bill
-More businesses on Capitol Street are going out of business
-“Evers Praises Court in Integration Case” |
| 29 |
-“Rust Students Attend Ole Miss Lecture”
-Voter registration in Canton |
| Mar. 7 |
-“Separate Facilities Ruled Illegal”
-“Tough Road Still Ahead for Important C. R. Bill”
-“Johnson Speaks on Civil Rights”
-“New Trial Date Due March 23” (in Medgar Evers murder trial)
-“Jackson Clergy Form Alliance” |
| 14 |
-Stars still refusing to play Jackson coliseum
-Battle of Civil Rights Bill reaches Senate after the House passed it
-Canton students stay home from school to protest poor facilities
-More African Americans in Federal jobs, according to President Johnson
-“Natchez Man Might be KKK Victim” |
| 21 |
-Garbage men write Jackson mayor to ask for vacations and higher pay
-31,000 leaflets sent to whites in Jackson that inform them about the boycott and how to counter-act it |
| Apr. 11 |
-Senator Stennis and 3 Congressmen are challenged by African American candidates
-Governor Paul B. Johnson and Ex-governor Barnett may be fined or jailed for their efforts to keep Meredith from registering at Ole Miss
-“New Beckwith Trial Opens”
-U. S. Supreme Court says Mississippi’s tradition of calling African Americans solely by their first names in court must stop |
| May 16 |
-Students at Alcorn are still out of school after state Highway Patrol arrested bus-loads for demonstrating
-Women strike for peace in Netherlands |
| 23 |
-“Meredith Fund Closes”
-“Jackson Desegregation Hearing Started”
-Brown University will aid Tougaloo College |
| June 27 |
-“Report on 3 missing C. R. Workers, Last Seen Neshoba County”
-“Hot Summer is on: C. R. Workers Missing, Car Burned, Church and Homes Bombed and Burned”
-Ford Foundation gives aid to African American colleges
-U. S. Supreme Court ruled both houses of state legislature must be elected from districts that are equal in population (not geographical) |
| July 4 |
-“Mississippi Freedom Summer Underway”
-“Mississippi Cannot Grow Without Truth – A Free Electorate Needed”
-“Mayor Bans Minister from Church”
-“U. S. Civil Rights Commission Agrees to Hold 1964 Hearing in Mississippi”
-“3 Rights Workers Believed Dead”
-Letter from Charles Evers to R. F. K.
-“3 Arrested on Threat Charge” |
| 11 |
-On July 5th hotel and motel owners in Jackson opened to African Americans seeking accommodations
-White Citizens Council advocates boycotting African American owned businesses
-NAACP sends board to observe human rights violations in Mississippi |
| 18 |
-“Mississippi Likely to Get a Grade – a – Year Desegregation”
-Mississippi begins following new Civil Rights Law
-“New Freedom Schools Opening”
-“Courts Speed Vote Registration” Batesville
-“Phillip Randolph to Receive Medal of Freedom”
-“Key Provisions of New Civil Rights Act”
-“Ruling Bans All-White Jury”
-Congressman seeks protection from Federal government for Civil Rights Workers |
| 25 |
-Goldwater’s views like that of conservative, white Southerners although he is a Westerner
-“Crowd Turns Out for King”
-Burning crosses, and farm equipment sabotage in Bolton
-“Mississippi Has Nation’s Lowest Crime Rate…Says Daily Press”
-“School Desegregation Plans Contested”
-2 African American bodies found mutilated – Federal investigation called for
-“Organized Labor to Push Fair Employment”
-“Southern C. R. Compliance – American Jewish Congress View”
-“McDowell’s Expulsion Appealed” |
| Aug. 1 |
-Governor Wallace sued for 200 grand
-Government agencies ask departments not to speak before segregated audiences
-“New Freedom Democrats Force Lily Whites’ Recess”
-“Freedom Democrats Challenge Old Order Politics”
-“Macon County Alabama Schools Rid of Wallace”
-“Highlights of ’64 Republican Platform” |
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| Folder 6: Miscellaneous articles |
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-“Young Editor of Negro Newspaper Walks Tightrope in Mississippi.”
Asbury Park, NJ: Asbury Park Press. (date unknown). |
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-“Press Story.” New York, NY: New York Post. (April 23, 1963). |