K.K.K. Crosses Burn Again

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30951, 6 January 1966, Page 9

K.K.K. Crosses Burn Again

(N.Z. Press Association —Copyright) JACKSON (Mississippi), Jan. 5. Racial hatred and violence has flared again in America’s South.

In Mississippi burning crosses lighted the night skies at 100 places throughout the State in a co-ordinated Ku Klux Klan protest against Congress reopening its investigation into the Klan.

An official of the United Klans of America explained: “Klansmen were advised a week or so in advance to take part in this protest burning." One group of men tossed a flaming cross into the home of a lawyer, Mr William Ready, in the town of Meridian, but the police were waiting for any trouble and opened fire on the group. It was not known if anyone was hit in the shooting. In North Mississippi men

in a truck opened fire on F. 8.1. agents who were trying to get the licence number of their vehicle after the men had dropped a burning cross in front of a citizens’ club building, which is also local Civil Rights headquarters. NEGRO SHOT

Earlier, in Tuskegee, Alabama, a young Negro Civil Rights worker, Samuel L. Young jr., was shot to death after trying to use a restroom at a service station.

His killing touched off a sympathy march by 1500 Negroes, and Civil Rights leaders called for Federal marshals to be sent to Ala-, bama. An attendant at the service station where Young was shot was charged with first-degree murder.