Word: natchez
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Guns were, however, very much in evidence at Evers' inauguration. At the inaugural ball in nearby Natchez-apparently the first integrated dance in that city's history-black deputies were joined by FBI agents, local police and firemen, while two National Guard units were on alert. As it turned out, the only excesses in Natchez that night were the profits of local bars, which saw only one color in the Evers celebration-green...
...defendants have been convicted of the murder, but one of them, James L. Jones, 58, confessed before his 1967 trial. He said that he had been present when Ernest Avants, 37, and Claude Fuller, 48, killed Ben Chester White, a caretaker who worked on a farm near Natchez. For no particular reason, said Jones, the three men took
...Paunchy suburban couples from Hartford and Los Angeles come to see Southern Hospitality. They are displeased with the increasing velocity of their modern life; and the sight of calm acres make them smile. They gladly plunk down their admission fees to see the remnants of the old days in Natchez and Richmond. They stay at hotels with names like The Plantation House, and go home convinced that heaven must be a little like the South...
Neuman and Pincus have spent the past year editing 40 hours of film clips. Recently they returned to Natchez to film reactions to the murder of civil rights leader Wharlest Jackson, February...
...Harvard pair conceived the idea of making a documentary film in December of 1964. Foundation grants and individual gifts, totaling $40,000, enabled them to rent a house in the Natchez ghetto, live as members of the Negro community, and make the film...