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The full-scale exodus to the famed Neshoba County fairgrounds will be well underway this weekend. Mississippi’s “Giant Houseparty” officially opens Monday, although there will be programs Saturday and Sunday by eight riding clubs of this area.
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Wednesday, June 09, 2004
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| Bodies of missing trio found buried in levee/August 6, 1964 |
The bodies of three missing civil rights workers who disappeared here on June 21 were uncovered in a dam of a pond by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents about 6:30 p.m. Tuesday Aug. 4. Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, both white, of New York and James Chaney, Negro, of Meridian, were last seen leaving Philadelphia on June 21 after paying a fine for speeding.
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Wednesday, June 09, 2004
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| 'Civil Righters' suit dismissed/August 6, 1964 |
U.S. District Judge Sidney Mize Thursday dismissed a suit requesting appointment of U.S. commissioners in Mississippi’s 82 counties for the protection of Civil Rights workers
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Wednesday, June 09, 2004
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| TANNEHILL/You name it (July 16, 1964) |
July 16, 1964
If an accurate count could be recorded, this writer would say that the number of Mississippians who say they are going to vote for Barry Goldwater would be in the several hundreds. I have yet to find a citizen of Neshoba County who condones the actions of the national Democratic party and Lyndon B. Johnson. There will be a strong organization in this Mississippi county for the Senator, just as there will probably be in all other counties. A meeting Friday night at the courthouse in Philadelphia will give many an opportunity to express themselves on the matter
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Friday, May 28, 2004
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| $1 million suit filed against NBC, others (July 23, 1964) |
July 23, 1964
A lawsuit for $1,000,000 on behalf of Neshoba County Sheriff Lawrence A. Rainey has been filed in Chancery Court here, naming Buford W. Posey, the National Broadcasting Company, Richard Valeranni, the Lamar Life Broadcasting Company and the Southern Television Corporation as defendants. The suit was filed by Attorney Laurel Weir on July 18.
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Friday, May 28, 2004
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| Rainey, Price named in U.S. suit by COFO/Front page story on July 16, 1964 |
Rainey, Price named in U.S. suit by COFO/Front page story on July 16, 1964
Neshoba County Sheriff Lawrence Rainey and Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price were served with a summons to appear in federal court in Meridian at 9:00 a.m., Thursday, July 23, to answer a civil suit filed by the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) against them and others.
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Wednesday, May 19, 2004
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| Search continues for missing 'rights' men/Front page story on July 16, 1964 |
Search continues for missing 'rights' men
Front page story on July 16, 1964
Philadelphia and Neshoba County have quieted down considerably and has maintained its normal pace for the past two weeks following the hectic days following the discovery of the burned car of the three missing “civil rights” workers here on June 23.
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Wednesday, May 19, 2004
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| TANNEHILL/You name it (July 16, 1964) |
Wonder if President Johnson has ever thought of the advantages of poverty. Can you imagine how much sin there would be in the world if everybody could afford it?
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Wednesday, May 19, 2004
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| TANNEHILL/You name it (1964) |
July 9, 1964
Sorry to hear that Mrs. Walker Jones had to make a hurried trip to an eye doctor in Cincinnati this week. We hope it’s not serious and she’s back shortly and in better health than ever.
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Wednesday, May 12, 2004
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| Visiting Media (July 9, 1964) |
July 9, 1964
Art Richardson, Public Information Officer for the Department of Public Safety, receives another of the many phone calls while Bill Plante and Phillip F. Oramous wait for further developments in the current “civil rights” story.
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Wednesday, May 12, 2004
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| ‘Civil righters’ here Monday confer with county officials (July 9, 1964) |
July 9, 1964
Sixteen “Civil Rights” workers visited Philadelphia, Monday of this week on what they described as “a personal investigation of the ‘civil rights’ movement and to observe first hand the conditions which exist where three of their workers are reported to be missing.”
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Wednesday, May 12, 2004
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| TANNEHILL/You name it (1964)
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July 2, 1964
This editor was interviewed by Time magazine last Saturday and tried to give that national publication a true picture of our way of life and our citizens as a whole. Here’s hopes the printed word comes out the same way it was given, but we never know. If we refuse to give these national publications interviews we are branded as someone who refuses to cooperate and wants to hide something, and when we do express our feelings and thoughts, they seem to be distorted in so many instances. Not giving the full quote can make anyone look ridiculous, and that’s been a neat trick to mislead the readers so many times. Politicians have suffered from that type reporting for years.
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Friday, May 07, 2004
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| EDITORIAL/Visiting newsmen, we’re glad to have you (July 2, 1964) |
July 2, 1964
There have been about 80 of you newsmen in Philadelphia and Neshoba County since the three “civil rights” workers disappeared. It is unfortunate that it takes such a tragedy as this to get you to visit our town. The people here don’t like the circumstances any more than you do, but fate has ordained that we are the victims, so we must make the best of it.
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Friday, May 07, 2004
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| Mayor Harbour issues statement (1964) |
July 2, 1964
Mayor Ab Davis Harbour of Philadelphia, in commenting on the possibility of a visit by people from other areas of the United States to engage in “civil rights” activities, had this to say on the matter:
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Friday, May 07, 2004
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| Investigation lull; search continues (1964) |
July 2, 1964
No conclusive evidence of what happened to the three “civil rights” workers who disappeared over a week ago here after being arrested for speeding has turned up yet, but rumors have floated around fairly regularly that witnesses have been found that saw two men near the station wagon before it was burned and that another witness has revealed valuable information to officials and has been rushed out of the state for safe keeping.
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Friday, May 07, 2004
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| Missing auto of trio
found by FBI Tuesday (1964) |
The car driven by three integrationists who disappeared after being arrested last Sunday night here has been found by Federal Bureau of Investigation officers about 13 miles from Philadelphia, in the northeast corner of Neshoba County.
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Wednesday, April 28, 2004
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| Sheriff Rainey asks cooperation
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“Let’s keep the peace and help in every way we can to solve this unfortunate incident,” said Sheriff Lawrence Rainey Wednesday morning.
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Wednesday, April 28, 2004
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| TANNEHILL/You name it (1964) |
This column may get completely crowded out of the paper this week with so much going on which the people are interested in. This issue is not carrying the kind of news we like to print, but as we have said in the past, we don’t make the news, we just print it.
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Wednesday, April 28, 2004
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| Historical context of 1964 civil rights murders |
An observance commemorating the 40th anniversary of the civil rights murders is planned June 20 in Philadelphia. Leading up to that observance the Democrat will reprint selected articles from our coverage in 1964 fitting with the observance theme: Recognition, resolution, redemption: Uniting for justice.
The following provides historical context for the first installment on April 28, 2004.
— Jim Prince
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Wednesday, April 28, 2004
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| EDITORIAL/It’s time to be calm and cool-headed (1964) |
Like so many other cities and towns in the state, Philadelphia has had its first experience with the so-called “civil rights’ groups, when the three persons who came here last Sunday supposedly to investigate the burning of a Negro church in this county. It is, indeed, unfortunate that they are missing and haven’t been heard from by officials at this writing. It is the hope of all law-abiding citizens in this area that no physical harm has come to them and they will eventually show up.
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Wednesday, April 28, 2004
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