Big Mixup As Negro Registrants March On Grenada
Officials held clerks at Grenada County courthouse until Tuesday night to register six Negroes while others gathered at a church and on school grounds. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and Floyd McKissick joined local leaders in tense doorway talks with Bradford Dye and Sheriff Suggs to keep the office open and plan mass registrations.
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Floyd McKissick
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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Congress’ of Racial Equality
Bradford Dye
Suggs Tngram
Charles Snodgrass
Highway Patrol
Memphis
Veterans marchers press on toward Jackson amid voter gains
The Mississippi march shows 181 new registered voters in Grenada and 63 in Batesville as veterans advance toward Jackson rejecting delays. Meredith is recovering in New York after being shot. Norvell's bond bid fails and heads to November grand jury. The US signals willingness to help fund Cambodian ICC inspection amid uncertain prospects and prior Geneva framework.
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Meredith
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Batesville
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Rusk
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Cambodia
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Russia
Buena Elementary
Arsonist Sets Four Seaside Fires in Two Hours
An arsonist sparked four fires in Seaside within two hours Tuesday night. The blazes destroyed Window Wonderland and Food Corner Market and damaged a school and a drug store. Firefighters, insurance adjusters, and owners assessed the losses at each site.
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Three white men held for Ben White murder in Natchez
Three white men Claude Fuller Ernest Avants and James Lloyd Jones were held without bond at state police headquarters for lie detector tests in the killing of Ben Chester White whose body was found in Pretty Creek near Kingston. White, shot 16 times and with a shotgun blast, had no civil rights ties per the district attorney. The case follows a period of Klan activity and civil rights protests in Natchez and remarks that two suspects had ties to Ku Klux Klan organizations.
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