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Rumors of a flourishing Ku Klux Klan chapter abound, and black residents often complain about what they see as police harassment and terrorism...
...Committee Against Racism (CAR) voice stronger feelings about the local police, claiming the existence of a "Court-Cop-Klan Alliance." Pointing to past shootings of blacks by P.G. policemen, CAR literature states, "Given the racist history of these P.G. cops, it's not Terrance who should be on trial; these cops should be on trial for racist murders. Indeed, the P.G. cops have such a long racist history of murder and terror against workers in P.G. that, besides the county government, the only organized support they have is from the Ku Klux Klan...
...tradition of the 1960s, Robinson's group staged hymn-singing marches. Some of his followers were arrested, but the marches spread to Lexington, Okolona, Canton and Corinth. The Ku Klux Klan held counterdemonstrations, and there were scattered episodes of violence. Robinson's tactics are not born of nostalgia; they fit his perception of the problem. "There's no such thing as the New South," he says bitterly. "There's more racism in Mississippi in 1978 than there was in 1972." But some blacks see Robinson's approach as self-defeating. When the Tupelo city government...
...major industry in Lynn (pop. 1,360) is casketmaking: there are now four such factories. It was prime territory for the Ku Klux Klan, and George Southworth, now of Miami, recalls that Jones' father took part in the weekly meetings, with sheets and hoods, on a field near town. But other childhood acquaintances do not remember any link between the Klan and the elder Jones, a railroad man who worked only rarely after being gassed in World War I. Jones claimed his mother was an American Indian, but his cousin Barbara Shaffer says, "He made that up to impress...
Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court Justice: "The Ku Klux Klan never dies. They just stop wearing sheets because sheets cost too much...