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MISSISSIPPI FREE PRESS
THREE ARRESTED ON THREAT CHARGE
RULEVILLE MAN KILLED BY STATE PATROLMAN
Saturday, July 4, 1964
Defense Fund...
(Continued from Page 4)
school segregation decision via the school closings and tuition grant tactics.
Three Arrested On
Threat Charge
FBI agents arrested
three men In Itta Bena
June 26 and charged them
*1th violating a federal
law which makes it unlawful to engage in conspiracy to threaten or intimidate persons seeking
to carry out federally
guaranteed rights such as
voter registration.
Hearings for Merriet
Ely Randle, 44, James E.
Hodges, 27, and Lawrence
Neal McGraw, 37, were
set by U. S. Commissioner
Omar Craig at the Federal
court building in Oxford.
John Byon Paul of New
York and Roy Torkington
of California both SNCC
summer volunteers were
canvassing with SNCC
staff member Willie Mc-
Gee away and took the students to a bus stop to put
them on a bus out of town.
The students refused to
leave town despite threats
against their lives.
The volunteers asked
town Marshall Weber for
protection at a mass meeting where they were to
speak the same evening.
He would not promise protection but the volunteers
said they saw him outside
after the meeting and believed he may have been
influential in preventing
trouble.
Immediately after the
threats against the students were made, the
Jackson COFO office and
the Atlanta SNCC office
asked the FBI to act in
the case. The volunteers
had obtained license numbers and names. The FBI
arrested three of the four
men involved the day following the incident.
The arrest was believed
to be the first made under
that law, although it has
been in effect since 1960.
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Health
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912 I vn.h Strttt
J.cktoa. Mitt.
Ruleville Man Killed
By State Patrolman
Isaiah Taylor, 34, was
shot and killed by State
Patrolman Bob Wallace at
5:30 p.m. June 26 on U.S.
Highway 49 West, near
Doddsville. Taylor was
killed within a half mile
of the Eastland plantation
where he was born and
raised.
Wallace and Constable
T. A. Fleming, who witnessed the shooting, said
Taylor covered his face
when the patrol car passed
him on the highway. When
they stopped to question
him, Taylor allegedly refused to give his name,
talked aggressively, and
then pulled a knife. Wallace then arrested him and
tried to disarm him with
a gun and a blackjack.
According to Wallace,
Taylor tried to resist arrest and slashed at him
with the knife. He said
he shot Taylor from a
distance of about ten feet
after he threw the knife
at the patrolman.
COFO officials expressed suspicion that
Wallace's account of the
shooting was untrue. They
said that Taylor had been
released last July from a
mental institution and was
an acute catatonic, and
that the behavior described by Wallace was unlikely for a man having
that condition.
COFO said the reported
path of the knife was also
unlikely. The knife, which
was found two hours after
the incident by the highway
patrol, was fifty feet from
the place where it was
supposed to have struck
Wallace's head.
Maggie Taylor, mother
of the dead man, arrived
on the scene before the
body was removed. She
said that police yelled,
' 'Get that hollering woman
away," and did not let
her see the body of her
son.
Lawyer Alan Nevas of
the Lawyer's Constitutional Defense Committee
commented that "unusually quick action" had
been taken by officials.
The coroner's inquest was
closed the morning of the
day following the shooting.
Justice of the Peace Murphy's ruling of justifiable
homicide was delivered
within seventeen hours of
the killing.
See Mosley's Fer
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Masonic Temple VMg.
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POrk RibS for Bar-B-Cue 29(
Pan Ready
Fryers 3Lk, 89c
Prairie Belt
Sliced Bacon ><> 49c
Magnolia
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Object Description
| Title | CORE--Mississippi Free Press - Newspaper, 1964 Feb. 8-Aug. 1 (Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi 4th Congressional District records, 1961-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 793, Reel 3, Segment 69) |
| Author/Creator | Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi, Fourth Congressional District |
| Folder Description | This folder consists of copies of the Mississippi Free Press, a newspaper by and for African American Mississippians, from February through August 1964. |
| State | Mississippi; New York; Alabama; |
| Place | Jackson; Amite County; Pike County; Warren County; Mound Bayou; Liberty; Natchez; Canton; Ruleville; Wilkinson County; Meridian; Greenwood; Itta Bena; Hattiesburg; Carthage; Philadelphia; Clarksdale; Nesbit; Durant; New York; Montgomery; |
| Subject | Mississippi Free Press; assault and battery; police; police brutality; cross burning; threats; intimidation; Ku Klux Klan; White Citizens councils; boycotts; Bonanza (Television program); segregation; Tougaloo College; employment; murder; United States Commission on Civil Rights; voter registration; freedom schools; federal aid; United States. Department of Justice; lawyers; freedom rides; Freedom Vote; Black history; Mississippi Student Union; students; Freedom Day; Rust College; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; clothing and dress; food drives; lynching; discrimination in employment; Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission; volunteers; elections; Democratic Party (Miss.); poverty; teachers; wages; eviction; public welfare; arrest; music; unemployment; Free Southern Theater; War on Poverty; education; mass media; United Nations; jail experiences; communism; John Birch Society; Jews; clergy; church buildings; Highlander Research and Education Center (Knoxville, Tenn.); housing; Democratic Party (U.S.); community centers; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; United States. Civil Rights Act of 1964; Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.); Voter Education Project (Southern Regional Council); Congress of Racial Equality; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.); Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; literacy tests (election law); Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College; Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee (U.S.); Southern Christian Leadership Conference; National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America; |
| Personal Name | Ballard, Mamie; Evers, Charles, 1922-; Henry, Aaron, 1922-1997; Holden, A. J.; Webb, James E. (James Edwin), 1906-1992; Milner, R. E. Dumas; Hirt, Al; Davenport, Roy K.; McDowell, Cleve; Beckwith, Byron de la; Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963; Goza, John; Poppleton, Richard; Hendrick, Leon F.; Waller, Bill; Price, Lloyd; Lott, Hardy; Poston, Ted; Thompson, Allen C. (Allen Cavett), 1906-1980; Kasilbasch, Hamid; Konditi, Gershon; Udoh, Essien; Whitney, S. Leon; James, John; Ottison, Paul; Haygood, Gregory; Frazer, Herman; Livingston, Marva; Britton, Albert B.; Stevens, Robert M.; Silver, James W. (James Wesley), 1907-1988; Barrett, Russell H.; Lee, Herbert; Allen, Louis; Hurst, E. H.; Jones, Daniel; Bunche, Ralph J. (Ralph Johnson), 1904-1971; Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973; Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963; Blue, Willie; Satterfield, John C.; Barnett, Ross R. (Ross Robert), 1898-1987; Brown, R. Jess, 1912- ; Meredith, James, 1933-; Mosley, C. C., Mrs.; Allen, James, Jr.; McAfee, Ann; Mize, Sidney C. (Sidney Carr), 1888-1965; Evers, Darrell Kenyatta; Evers, Reena Denise; Bailey, Shirley; Bailey, Verna; Bailey, Thomas; Bailey, Samuel; Motley, Constance Baker, 1921-2005; Curtis, Archie; Scott, William; McKissick, Floyd B. (Floyd Bixler), 1922-1991; Campbell, L. Foote; Dennis, Dave; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994; White, David W.; Zellner, Dorothy M.; Bell, Derrick A.; Wirtz, Willard, 1912-2010; Stennis, John C. (John Cornelius), 1901-1995; Russell, Richard B. (Richard Brevard), 1897-1971; Mansfield, Mike; Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978; Kuchel, Thomas H.; Graffman, Gary; Stebar, Eleanor; Molina, Jose; Moore, Austin; Bar Ilan, David; Richter-Haaser, Hans; Musial, Stan, 1920-2013; Lewis, John; Walker, Clifton; Javits, Jacob K. (Jacob Koppel), 1904-1986; Johnston, Erle; Moses, Robert Parris; Hamer, Fannie Lou; Cameron, John, Rev.; Greenberg, Jack, 1924-; Smith, R. L. T. (Robert L. T.); Smith, R. L. T. (Robert L. T.); Luddon, Willie B.; Hall, Carsie A.; Travis, Jack; Johnson, Paul B., 1916-1985; Adams, Victoria Gray, 1926-2006; Houston, James Monroe; Williams, John Bell; Colmer, William Meyers, 1890-1980; Whitten, Jamie; Hamer, Perry; Block, Samuel; Travis, James; Baez, Joan; Hamilton, Mary; Amaker, Norman; Gregory, Dick; Hancock, Milton; Stembridge, Jane; Frey, Richard; Davis, George; Carter, Betty; Nilsson, Birgit; Leigh, Sanford; Ladner, Heber; Belafonte, Harry, 1927- ; Bikel, Theodore; Baldwin, James, 1924-1987; Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967; Davis, Ossie; Dee, Ruby; Ryan, Robert; Kirstein, Lincoln; Behrman, Jack N.; Frazier, John; Allen, Walter Ernest, 1911-1995; Spender, Stephen; Gassner, John; Lomax, Louis E.; Stamps, Norma; Boyd, J. D.; Smith, Hazel Brannon; Thomas, Nancy; Johnson, Lillian Rogers; Beittel, Adam Daniel; Harvey, Clarie Collins, 1916-1995; Allen, James; Frederick, Pauline; Briggs, Henry; O'Neal, Frederick; Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998; Williams, Tommy; Lucas, Edwin J.; Drinan, Robert F.; Rachlin, Carl; Pratt, Jack; Pfeffer, Leo, 1910-; Moore, Howard; Wulf, Melvin L.; Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981; Hamblin, McKinley; Trumpauer, Joan; King, Edwin H.; King, Jeannette; Hochstedtler, Bill; Evers, Myrlie; Evers, James; Day, Larry; Butts, Charles; Reddix, Jacob L.; Jefferson, Thelma; Singleton, Edna Marie; Wright, Mercedes; Kennard, Clyde; Ramsay, Claude; Moody, Anne, 1940-; Norman, Memphis; Donald, Cleveland; Wilson, Fabe W.; Gantt, Harvey; Allen, Elizabeth; Polier, Shad; Corson, James; Dorrough, Charles M.; Smith, Wofford; Hannah, John A.; Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968; Rainey, Lawrence A.; Nash, Willie; Farmer, James, 1920-1999; Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939-1964; Goodman, Andrew, 1943-1964; Chaney, James Earl, 1943-1964; Raymond, George; Mandel, Robert; Mandel, Lisa; Collins, Ben; Sitzer, Lewis; Suter, John W.; Ginzburg, Ralph; Holbert, Luther; Hobbs, John; Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979; Wylie, Hytum G.; Randle, Merritt Ely; Hodges, James E.; McGraw, Lawrence; Paul, John Lyon; Torkington, Roy Bernard, 1940-; McGhee, Willie; Taylor, Isaiah; Wallace, Bob; Fleming, T. A.; Taylor, Maggie; Nevas, Alan H., 1928-; White, Maurice; Brady, Thomas P., 1903-1973; Ryan, William F., 1922-1972; Hawkins, Augustus; Current, Gloster B. (Gloster Bryant), 1913-1997; Valeriani, Dick; Hudson, Claude; Lewis, Chester; Koplin, Kivie; Laws, Clarence; Guscott, Kenneth; Burton, Phillip; Lewis, Alfred Baker; Overton, L. Joseph; Pierce, M. B.; Stallworth, Jessie Mae; Bilbo, Theodore Gilmore, 1877-1947; Bender, Rita L.; Dirksen, Everett McKinley; Thompson, Jonnie H.; White, Lee C., 1923-; McDew, Charles; King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968; Zellner, Bob; Lingo, Al; Thetford, William; Smith, Maury; Loe, D. Eugene; Snows, Jack; Painter, Willie; Bingham, Stephen, 1942- ; Levine, Allan; Thatcher, Jeff; McGhee, Silas; Bryant, Charles; Bryant, Charles, Mrs.; Howard, David; Geer, Robin; Hamer, Donald; Moses, Gilbert; O'Neal, John, 1940-; Cole, Nat King, 1919-1965; Dandridge, Dorothy, 1924-1965; Poitier, Sidney; Newman, Paul; Schechner, Richard, 1934-; Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915; McCarthy, Joseph; Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909-1998; Miller, William E.; Heningburg, Gustav; |
| Event Date | 1964; |
| Year | 1964; |
| Language | English |
| Source | Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi 4th Congressional District records, 1961-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 793, Reel 3, Segment 69; WIHVC239G-A |
| Format | newsletters; periodicals; |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2014 |
| 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. |
| Digital Format | XML |
| Digital Identifier | fsCOREMS4thR3S69 |
| Type | Text; Image |
Description
| Title | p.8 |
| Page Text | Page 8 MISSISSIPPI FREE PRESS THREE ARRESTED ON THREAT CHARGE RULEVILLE MAN KILLED BY STATE PATROLMAN Saturday, July 4, 1964 Defense Fund... (Continued from Page 4) school segregation decision via the school closings and tuition grant tactics. Three Arrested On Threat Charge FBI agents arrested three men In Itta Bena June 26 and charged them *1th violating a federal law which makes it unlawful to engage in conspiracy to threaten or intimidate persons seeking to carry out federally guaranteed rights such as voter registration. Hearings for Merriet Ely Randle, 44, James E. Hodges, 27, and Lawrence Neal McGraw, 37, were set by U. S. Commissioner Omar Craig at the Federal court building in Oxford. John Byon Paul of New York and Roy Torkington of California both SNCC summer volunteers were canvassing with SNCC staff member Willie Mc- Gee away and took the students to a bus stop to put them on a bus out of town. The students refused to leave town despite threats against their lives. The volunteers asked town Marshall Weber for protection at a mass meeting where they were to speak the same evening. He would not promise protection but the volunteers said they saw him outside after the meeting and believed he may have been influential in preventing trouble. Immediately after the threats against the students were made, the Jackson COFO office and the Atlanta SNCC office asked the FBI to act in the case. The volunteers had obtained license numbers and names. The FBI arrested three of the four men involved the day following the incident. The arrest was believed to be the first made under that law, although it has been in effect since 1960. JONES PHARMACY In Buslnem F#r Tout Health Dial f I 2 B3«l FREE DELIVERY 912 I vn.h Strttt J.cktoa. Mitt. Ruleville Man Killed By State Patrolman Isaiah Taylor, 34, was shot and killed by State Patrolman Bob Wallace at 5:30 p.m. June 26 on U.S. Highway 49 West, near Doddsville. Taylor was killed within a half mile of the Eastland plantation where he was born and raised. Wallace and Constable T. A. Fleming, who witnessed the shooting, said Taylor covered his face when the patrol car passed him on the highway. When they stopped to question him, Taylor allegedly refused to give his name, talked aggressively, and then pulled a knife. Wallace then arrested him and tried to disarm him with a gun and a blackjack. According to Wallace, Taylor tried to resist arrest and slashed at him with the knife. He said he shot Taylor from a distance of about ten feet after he threw the knife at the patrolman. COFO officials expressed suspicion that Wallace's account of the shooting was untrue. They said that Taylor had been released last July from a mental institution and was an acute catatonic, and that the behavior described by Wallace was unlikely for a man having that condition. COFO said the reported path of the knife was also unlikely. The knife, which was found two hours after the incident by the highway patrol, was fifty feet from the place where it was supposed to have struck Wallace's head. Maggie Taylor, mother of the dead man, arrived on the scene before the body was removed. She said that police yelled, ' 'Get that hollering woman away" and did not let her see the body of her son. Lawyer Alan Nevas of the Lawyer's Constitutional Defense Committee commented that "unusually quick action" had been taken by officials. The coroner's inquest was closed the morning of the day following the shooting. Justice of the Peace Murphy's ruling of justifiable homicide was delivered within seventeen hours of the killing. See Mosley's Fer Year Shoe Needs Mosley's Shoes Masonic Temple VMg. 948-3417 "The Family Shoe Store" •nS NEW DEAL XSUPERMARKET tvnts" Ground Beef Capital 4 u». $1 Picnic $1«9 eo i Butcher Boy 3m0ke(j Franks or Sausage 3 **. 89c Chicken Livers 5 *•. $2.49 POrk RibS for Bar-B-Cue 29( Pan Ready Fryers 3Lk, 89c Prairie Belt Sliced Bacon ><> 49c Magnolia Roll Sausage 3 iw.. $1 10 Veal «BP F°igers DQA Instant I 00V Coffee Armour 10 oz. | WIENERS ib 49c $1.49 At all local New Deal Stores Bar-B-Cue r . ■ Special LAMB, nc0 First Cut Pork Chops 390 |ar "• trnW —^tnnmmT~" Sealtest Lemonade 2-'/2 gale. 1QA pink or plain liTll Old Fashion Colonial Bread ioves 35c 50 FRE GOLD NUGGETT WITH PURCHASE OF 2 PACS 0F- Ham Salad ;>**•» 49c • Chicken Salad Drakes 49c 25 FREE GOLD MD NUGGETT STAMPS WITH PURCHASE OF Redi Lunch Meat T20*- can 4fc _ —— — - ■ ^» ■-- ■ —Bliia i MT.T 25 FREE GOLD NUGGETT STAMPS WITH PURCHASE OF— Broadcast Chopped Ham ji •«. e« 55c Ice Milk V2 Gal. 49c Jewel Shortening 3 »•. 59c FAL5TAFF BEER 99c carton of 6 Cattlemens EGGSS1 -4 doz I Fresh Peas lb 15c Lettuce S2t 2 for 29c BAR-B-Cue Sauce ^h. 35c f WATERMELONS 79c Ea. YOUR CHOICE OF ONE WITH A $10 OR MORE PURCHASE Sugar 5 lbs. 19c Coca Colas case 99c 110 Packages of Kool-Aid Free |
| Language | English |
| Source | Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi 4th Congressional District records, 1961-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 793, Reel 3, Segment 69 |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2014 |
| 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. |
| Digital Format | JPEG2000 |
| Digital Identifier | Micro 793 - Reel 3 01224 |