RESIGNATION OF NEGRO
Police Chief For One Week (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) CRAWFORDVILLE (Georgia), July 22. The South’s first Negro police chief who resigned on Wednesday night, said he had been threatened before handing in his badge. The Negro, Mr Jesse Meadows, aged 66, has held the job as chief of police in this small town for less than a week. He refused to say whether the threat was made by whites or Negroes. Factions on both sides of the racial issue were known to oppose his appointment. “There were too many on my back,” said Mr Meadows, a retired sawmill worker. “I thought I’d better quit before I got hurt or my wife got hurt. I feel much better now.” He said he did not plan to do anything now, except “go 1 fishing.”
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30811, 24 July 1965, Page 20
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134RESIGNATION OF NEGRO Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30811, 24 July 1965, Page 20
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