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Greenwood marchers face hostility as King returns to Mississippi
In Greenwood Mississippi white bystanders scorned voters rights marchers as hoses were turned on them and a Confederacy song played. Negro youth punched by a nightstick, police kept order while Hosea Williams urged registration and black representation. Dr Martin Luther King Jr spoke to about 250 marchers and later joined about 400 in a Los Angeles-like caravan toward Montgomery County.
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Greenwood, Miss
Mississippi
Greenwood
Grenada
A. B. Hammond
Hosea Williams
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Viet Nam
Williams
J. Y. Thomas
Martin Luther King Jr
Mona
Montgomery County
King
Paul Johnson
James H. Meredith
Broad Street Park
Aubrey James Norvell
Memphis
Meredith
Hernando, Miss
mid-South
Norvell
Edward Whitten
Norvell Legal Aid Fund
Martin Luther King, Jr
le Flore County
James Meredith
Stokely Carmichael
Carmichael
Ture
George Smith
Greenwood Woter
le Flore
J.R. Johhnson
S.L. Hilton
Negro County
Hilton
Fred Hudson
Ted Alexander
Alexander
Peter Burns
Columbia Broadcasting System