NEGROES’ RIGHTS
Campaign Postponed
(N Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copgripht) JACKSON (Mississippi), July 1. An integration leader said here today that plans to send volunteer civil rights workers into south-west Mississippi had been postponed because people in that part of the state were “heavily armed with automatic weapons and hand grenades.” The announcement was made by Mr Robert Moses, a co-ordinator of the-Mississippi summer project, under which young students and other volunteers are being sent into the state to carry out voter registration and educational programmes among the Negro population. Mr Moses said: “As we understand it, there is a place in Natchez (in south-west Mississippi) that is a depot for arms for the Ku Klux Klan.” He declined to give the source of his information about the arms reports.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30482, 2 July 1964, Page 5
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