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WATS Report June 30, 1964 pm - July 1, 1964 am M. King HOLLY SPRINGS, MISS. 1:00 am Prom R. Weil, Jackson, latest rpt. A white man, frequently seen hanging around SNCC activity in Holly Springs, accosted Larry Rubin June 30 as he and seven others, including Peter Cummings, were passing a gas station near the office. The man, who was standing in the gas station, started out with an empty coke bottle toward the group. He jumped between Rubin and the others and "cursed, shoved and grabbed him by the throat." He is quoted by Rubin as saying he was going to get a 12 gauge shotgun, and, "I'm gonna shoot up your office tonight." Walter Evans, a student at Rust College, called the police. Two cars of police and the mayor came to the restaurant Rubin and the group had left when intercepted, and searched everyone in the restaurant. Rubin called the FBI in Holly Springs, told them he can identify the white man. When police were asked for protection, they said they couldn't give any. Incident occurred about 8:00 pm; police protection was asked at about 8:30 pm. No one in that group was hurt. It was reported the same white man roughed up an elderly Negro who later passed by the same gas station. Earlier report about whites circling office with guns is untrue. # JACKSON Press conference. Prom R. Weil Moses was apparently misquoted in at least one network broadcast following an afternoon press conference. The network is supposed to have said we were calling off the Southwest project. What Moses actually siaid (policy) was: that we would try to send in some staff; and that a decision about volunteers would be made later. There is no basis for a report that we were cancelling that project. # Jackson: taken by Brenda Travis A car load of whites were circling the Jackson office with guns. Bob Weil was tal king with a private detective on last report. T chula: 8:30pm Two highway patrolman drove to the front of the house of David HoaCward They shined their 1 ights in the horse and asked for Joe Bingham (xn fact, Steve Bingham) a summer volunteer. 'Ikkkkkkkk They said they w anted to give him protection* Binghiam,they say, had set up so$e kind of office unknown to SNCC people, but he was not in the office. The patrolman told Mr. Raphel Hayes that the patrolman was supposed to meet Bingham at a Sanctified Church at 8:30. The license plates of the patrolmen were MHPlil and MHP52. One of their names was Bob Liston. When patrolmen asked Mr. Hayes about Bingham he told them that he did n*bt# live there* Cleveland, Miss. Two cars have been riding around the Cleveland SNCC office ever since the volunteers arrived from Oxford/ last week. One of the cars is a white '59 Pord, license number 6^695. The second car is a two tone green and white Plymouth with a white top, no license plate.
Object Description
Title | King--July, 1964 WATS Line Calls (Mary E. King papers , 1962-1999; Z: Accessions, M82-445, Box 1, Folder 8) |
Author/Creator | King, Mary E., 1940- |
Folder Description | July 1964 WATS line calls. An uptick in violence and harassment can be seen here. Highlights of this lengthy folder include the passage of the Civil Rights Act; out-of-state congressmen witnessing Mary Lane's 9th unsuccessful attempt to register to vote in Greenwood, Mississippi; the July 9th Freedom House bombing in McComb, Mississippi; a number of church burnings; a variety of beatings--in jail, on the streets, in cars, in stores and restaurants, in doctors' offices, in courthouses when people tried to register to vote--; and torchings of people's cars and tear-gassing and bombing of their houses. McComb experienced 5 bombings in July. The July 24th list of phone calls made when a car full of civil rights workers was thought to be missing conveys the alarm experienced during Freedom Summer when civil rights workers traveled. In one incident in which Silas McGhee, a local Greenwood youth, was set upon by whites when he tried to integrate a theater, his brother Clarence, a military veteran, showed up in his Army uniform to offer protection from the mob. The white church council of Canton, Mississippi, voted not to admit civil rights workers to their churches. There's also a list of churches bombed or burned in Mississippi from start of project to July 11, 1964 and a summary of incidents in Mississippi from July 14-30, 1964. On July 31st, 1964, names of 85 newly registered voters were printed in the Sardis, Mississippi, newspaper in spite of the fact that this was no longer required by Mississippi law; the law had been designed to intimidate would-be voters. On the same day in Greenwood, a summer volunteer was arrested while walking down the street and charged with parading without a permit and contributing to the delinquency of a minor; the report wryly states, "We think he was alone." The schedule for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, July 21-25, 1964 MFDP tour is included. |
State | Mississippi; Illinois; Georgia; New York; North Carolina; Pennsylvania; Alabama; Massachusetts; Michigan; Arkansas; North Carolina; Washington, D.C.; |
Place | Holly Springs; Jackson; Cleveland; Tchula; Clarksdale; Greenwood; Canton; Meridian; Gulfport; Laurel; Hattiesburg; Ruleville; Carthage; Harmony; Moss Springs; Itta Bena; Euphora; Starkville; Webster County; McComb; Lauderdale County; Philadelphia; Columbus; Ashland; Sunflower County; Indianola; Drew; Harrison County; Browning; Brandon; Clinton; Hollandale; Natchez; Neshoba County; Madison County; Leflore County; Batesville; Belzoni; Leland; Grenada; Durant; Adams County; Mayersville; Mileston; Mound Bayou; West Point; Madden; Chicago; Albany; Atlanta; Americus; Tifton; Doughterty County; Dawson; New York; Harlem, New York; Enfield; Henderson; Pittsburgh; Selma; Bessemer; Birmingham; Boston; Detroit; Helena; Pine Bluff; Marvel; Henderson; |
Subject | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.); police; threats; intimidation;; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; lynching; murder; United States. Civil Rights Act of 1964; Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.); police; White Citizens councils; Congress of Racial Equality; voter registration; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Mississippi Freedom Schools; National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America; Ku Klux Klan; demonstrations ; community centers; Freedom Day; assault and battery; police brutality; mass media; segregation; libraries; education; arrest; United States. Department of Justice; arrest; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; church buildings; bombings; arson; Freedom Day; Democratic Party (Miss.); Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.); Whites; John Birch Society; host families; veterans; unemployment; civil rights workers; communism; jails; clergy; |
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T.; Hall, Peter; Jones, Marshall; Stovall, Sandra; Fykes, Betty; Bentham, Raphael; Harris, Emory; Peacock, James; Rich, Marvin; Aelony, Zev, 1938-; Pardue, Mary Ann; Sayer, Michael; Griggs, Charles; Beech, Robert, 1935-2008; Zair, Melvin; Witt, Hal; Smith, Ruby Doris; McKenzie, Booker T.; Garman, Betty; Harris, Jesse; Hayes, Curtis; Thomas, Arthur; Pratt, Jack; Coles, Robert; Cox, Courtland, 1942-; Moses, Dona Richards; Samstein, Mendy; Sweeney, Dennis; Welsh, David; McNamara, Robert C., III; Greene, George; McCord, Don; Everett, Sherry; Walker, Pat; Greene, Freddye; Hopson, Clinton; Brown, Tom; Edwards, Don; Edwards, Len; McMillan, Ernest; Newall, Samuel; Talbert, Willie; Bernard, Joel; Fraser, Steve; Galloway, Warren; Sellers, Cleveland, 1944-; Garrett, Lee; Reese, F. D.; Richardson, Judy; Dann, James; Campbell, Maybelle; Holowell, W. 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L.; Boynton, Bruce; Houston, Marguarite; Scott, George; Robertson, Willie C.; McGhee, Laura; Johnson, Jesse; Frey, Richard; Sharp, Monroe; Mangrum, Fred; House, Stuart; Johnson, Willa; McGlaughan, Floyd; Anderson, Maeola; Collier, James; Hatcher, Sheila; McGirrill, Gilmore; Arrington, Jerry; Jenkins, Jerry; Roberts, Jennifer; Robinson, Bill; Harris, Earl; Rowell, George; Carmichael, Stokely; Cobb, Charles E., Jr.; Bender, Rita L.; Morris, Jesse; Schrader, Emmie; Grogan, Nan; Kendrick, Tom; Lidon, Michael; Parker, Augusta; Green, Lily; Willis, Anna; Washington, Willie; Lynd, Staughton; Jones, Chuck; Moore, Charles; Dee, Henry; Jones, James; Hall, Carsie A.; Smith, Benjamin Eugene; Hancock, Milton; Syare, Kime; Yarrow, C. H. Mike; McNair, Landy; Scattergood, Charles; Schwarz, Gretchen; Miller, Fred; Featherspoon, Ralph; McLaurin, Charles; Gresham, James; Morton, Eric; Smith, Steve; McDavis, Melvin; Ellis, Robert; Kaplan, Sherwin; Hawkins, Leroy; Fudge, Kirby; Oris, Peter; Greenberg, Iris; Brown, Bambi; Simms, Erin; Masters, Robert; Kornfield, Carol; Howard, Ruth; Kline, Adam; Smith, Frank; Gillon, Gwendolyn; Rohrbaugh, Ray; Aley, Margaret; Klein, Paul; Wetmore, Linda; Belfrage, Sally, 1936-; Miller, Richard; King, Annie Mae; Murphy, Bill; Johnson, Charles; McGhee, Silas; Harrison, Jesse; Malm, Harry; Wright, Larry; Perlman, Daniel; Welsh, David; Rainey, Lawrence A.; Price, Cecil; Michaels, Sheila Kessler; Loggins, Clinton; Weber, Edward; Loggins, Dorothea; Wilgoren, Arlene; Cowan, Geoffrey; Ricco, Marshall; Bloom, Steve; Maxwell, Bruce; Sorenson, Soren; Lott, Hardy; Beckwith, Byron De La; Cummins, Peter; Kendall, David; Davies, John; Cieciorka, Frank; Scott, Lewis; Goldstein, Billy; Johnson, Les; Werner, Peter; Patterson, Susan; Jones, William; Hartfield, Huston; Brooks, Mary; Dixon, Mary; Miller, Irma Jean; McDew, Charles; Ladner, Dorie; Barnes, T. J.; Murph, B. E.; Warren, Larry; Pestana, Frank; Luckett, Bill, 1948-; Evans, Grey; Shaw, Willie; O'Connell, Robert; Brian, L. Thomas; Yancey, Wayne; Harvey, Michael; Weathers, Dorothy; Brooks, Arance; Cole, Bernice; Barnes, Betty; Rollins, Willie; Turner, Leslie; Osman, Robert David; Savio, Mario; Garofolo, Robert; Carnathan, George; Watkins, Hollis, 1941-; Barnhill, Roger; Carter, Hodding; Eastland, James Oliver, 1904-1986; Stennis, John C. (John Cornelius), 1901-1995; Rauh, Joseph L., 1911-; Jack, Nathaniel; Levine, Allan; Alexander, Bryce; Blue, Willie; Peacock, Willie; Watts, Joseph Lee; Baty, Douglas; Belk, Willie; Belk, Jimmy; Shaffer, Sam Allen; McGhee, Silas; Scott, A. E.; Higgins, Dorothy; Bass, Robert; Stigler, Joe Louis; Jackson, Willie; Shawand Elis; Thatcher, Jeff; Berry, Elwood; Perkel, Burt; ; Rushin, Sammy; Chappell, Fred; Hamlett, Ed, 1939-; Harris, Tom; Townsend, Joe; Barrett, Joyce; Kitchen, Herman; Siegel, Larry; Griggs, Willie; Blockum, Robert; Hodes, William; Howard, David; Greer, Robin; Asheroff, Abe; Horton, Myles, 1905-1990; Turnbow, Hartman; King, Claude; Smith, Philander; Sarachild, Kathie; Miles, Robert; Weaver, Claude; Morrison, Truman; Bryant, Charles; Bryant, C. C.; McKeller, Tilmon; Brewie, Joseph; Jarnette, D. W.; McGhee, Jake; Earl, William James; Johnson, June; Rogers, Will; Henderson, Ed; Hammond, Buff; McGhee, Clarence; Barry, Otis; Barry, James; Hendricks, Eddie; Hendricks, Mary; Paul, John Lyon; Klein, Wendy; Breedon, James; MacLemore, Leslie; Perkins, Cornelius; Encoles, Jerry; Martin, John; Young, Carl; Scales, Charlie T.; Shannon, Prince; Carter, Guy; Corbin, June; McCall, Hosie; Smith, Willie; Moody, Dan; Williams, Betty; Surney, Lafayette; Dennis, James; Allen, John; Praetz, Peter; Schwartz, Richard; Monnie, Bill; Harris, Dorothy; Piore, Michael J.; Carney, Bill; Rimmer, Steve; Henry, Aaron, 1922-1997; King, Edwin H.; Adams, Victoria Gray, 1926-2006; Douglas, Paul; Coleman, George; Kaphan, Boardman; Wheelwright, Farley; Belson, Julius; Milford, Richard; Samstein, Mendy; Hannah, Catherine; Donaldson, Ivanhoe; Gerber, David; Brown, Willie; Brown, James; Flowers, Dick; Heininger, Edward K.; Polacheck, John; Thaggard, A. L.; O'Connor, Claire; Zellner, Bob; Winter, George; Jones, Ben; Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987; Farmer, James, 1920-1999; Greenberg, Jack, 1924-; Alberts, George; Swanson, Richard; Altheimer, Earl; |
Event Date | 1964-07; |
Year | 1964; |
Month | July; |
Language | English |
Source | Mary E. King papers , 1962-1999; Z: Accessions, M82-445, Box 1, Folder 8; WIHVK1420-A |
Format | reports and surveys; |
Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
Publication Date-Electronic | 2013 |
Rights | Copyright to these documents belongs to the individuals who created them or the organizations for which they worked. The principal organizations have been defunct for many years and copyright to their unpublished records is uncertain. We share them here strictly for non-profit educational purposes. We have attempted to contact individuals who created personal papers of significant length or importance. Nearly all have generously permitted us to include their work. If you believe that you possess copyright to material included here, please contact us at asklibrary@wisconsinhistory.org. Under the fair use provisions of the U.S. copyright law, teachers and students are free to reproduce any document for nonprofit classroom use. Commercial use of copyright-protected material is generally prohibited. |
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Title | p. 1 |
State | Mississippi |
Page Text | WATS Report June 30, 1964 pm - July 1, 1964 am M. King HOLLY SPRINGS, MISS. 1:00 am Prom R. Weil, Jackson, latest rpt. A white man, frequently seen hanging around SNCC activity in Holly Springs, accosted Larry Rubin June 30 as he and seven others, including Peter Cummings, were passing a gas station near the office. The man, who was standing in the gas station, started out with an empty coke bottle toward the group. He jumped between Rubin and the others and "cursed, shoved and grabbed him by the throat." He is quoted by Rubin as saying he was going to get a 12 gauge shotgun, and, "I'm gonna shoot up your office tonight." Walter Evans, a student at Rust College, called the police. Two cars of police and the mayor came to the restaurant Rubin and the group had left when intercepted, and searched everyone in the restaurant. Rubin called the FBI in Holly Springs, told them he can identify the white man. When police were asked for protection, they said they couldn't give any. Incident occurred about 8:00 pm; police protection was asked at about 8:30 pm. No one in that group was hurt. It was reported the same white man roughed up an elderly Negro who later passed by the same gas station. Earlier report about whites circling office with guns is untrue. # JACKSON Press conference. Prom R. Weil Moses was apparently misquoted in at least one network broadcast following an afternoon press conference. The network is supposed to have said we were calling off the Southwest project. What Moses actually siaid (policy) was: that we would try to send in some staff; and that a decision about volunteers would be made later. There is no basis for a report that we were cancelling that project. # Jackson: taken by Brenda Travis A car load of whites were circling the Jackson office with guns. Bob Weil was tal king with a private detective on last report. T chula: 8:30pm Two highway patrolman drove to the front of the house of David HoaCward They shined their 1 ights in the horse and asked for Joe Bingham (xn fact, Steve Bingham) a summer volunteer. 'Ikkkkkkkk They said they w anted to give him protection* Binghiam,they say, had set up so$e kind of office unknown to SNCC people, but he was not in the office. The patrolman told Mr. Raphel Hayes that the patrolman was supposed to meet Bingham at a Sanctified Church at 8:30. The license plates of the patrolmen were MHPlil and MHP52. One of their names was Bob Liston. When patrolmen asked Mr. Hayes about Bingham he told them that he did n*bt# live there* Cleveland, Miss. Two cars have been riding around the Cleveland SNCC office ever since the volunteers arrived from Oxford/ last week. One of the cars is a white '59 Pord, license number 6^695. The second car is a two tone green and white Plymouth with a white top, no license plate. |
Language | English |
Source | Mary E. King papers , 1962-1999; Z: Accessions, M82-445, Box 1, Folder 8 |
Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
Publication Date-Electronic | 2013 |
Rights | Copyright to these documents belongs to the individuals who created them or the organizations for which they worked. The principal organizations have been defunct for many years and copyright to their unpublished records is uncertain. We share them here strictly for non-profit educational purposes. We have attempted to contact individuals who created personal papers of significant length or importance. Nearly all have generously permitted us to include their work. If you believe that you possess copyright to material included here, please contact us at asklibrary@wisconsinhistory.org. Under the fair use provisions of the U.S. copyright law, teachers and students are free to reproduce any document for nonprofit classroom use. Commercial use of copyright-protected material is generally prohibited. |
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Digital Identifier | FSKINGB1F8001 |