Clarion Ledger; 23 May 1970, Sat; Pages 1 & 5
Youth's Funeral Held; Police Hope For Calm
Tension Eases Slightly
By GEORGE WHITTINGTON
Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer
Jackson police and National Guardsmen kept an unrelaxed vigil on crowd activities Friday night, after the burial of James Earl Green went off without a major incident.
But residents, whose anxiety built as the event approached, relaxed somewhat when the rites drew only some 4,000 persons, and those dispersed without incident following the burial in Willow Park Cemetery.
Tens of thousands had been expected, as civil rights and Negro leaders used the occasion to try to build interest toward a fever pitch. Strong warnings from both Gov. John Bell Williams and Mayor Russell Davis -coupled with disclosure that the police had received a full supply of antiriot equipment - was generally believed to have cut into attendance.
The body of 17-year-old Green had been at the funeral home since shortly after he died in a spatter of gunfire at Jackson State College a week before. Ultra-liberal members of Congress, some seeking reelection in states with pivotal Negro votes, visited the city both for the funeral and before it - and denounced officers who fired back at sniping students.
With the burial over at about 3:30 p.m., and a planeload of special visitors on their way back to their jet at Allen C. Thompson Field, police announced an "all clear" at the cemetery at 4.
But a call for an all-night prayer vigil off Mill Street and North West Street, in north Jackson, called for some watchfulness, and many small businessmen, fearful of further fire-bombings, were either guarding their own places or had special security guards on duty.
Police, joined by Highway Patrol, National Guard and some Justice Department agents, maintained a command post at Police Headquarters until after the "all clear".
Young Green was one of two persons killed in an exchange of gunfire a week ago Friday morning at Jackson State College. The other was Phillip Gibbs, 21, only JSC student killed, but whose funeral was held without fanfare last Sunday in Ripley, his home town.
Among the list of "special" visitors led by Sen. Edmund Muskie, D-Me., were football players James Snowden of the Washington Redskins and Lonnie Sanders of the St. Louis Cards, and former Boston Celtic basketball star Sam Jones.
Senators accompanying Muskie were Thomas Eagleton, D-Mo.; Philip Hart, D-Mich.; Harold Hughes, D-Iowa; Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii; Claiborne Tell, D-RI.; Charles Percy, R-Ill., and Ralph Yarbrough D-Tex.
House members include Rep. John Anderson, R-Ill.; Jeffery Coheian, D-Calif.; John Conyers Jr., D-Mich.; Charles C. Diggs Jr., D-Mich.; Robert Eckhart, D-Tex.; Abner Mikva, D-Ill.; William Moorhead, D-Pa.; Adam Clayton Powell, D-N.Y.; Henry Reuss, D-Wise.; and William Steiger, R-Wis.
Also on hand were former Ambassador to the United Nations W. Averell Harriman; NAACP Youth Director James Brown Jr.; U. S. Civil Rights Commission Staff Director Howard Glickstein; National Urban League Director Whitney Young, and Don Durrett, rep resenting the Black Student Union of the State University of New York at Binghampton.
INTIMIDATION FAILS
Negroes openly using intimidatory tactics to try to force business closings for the day were mostly unsuccessful - four of them being jailed on charges of abusive language and disturbing the peace at a local laundry.
Police said Rufus Burton, 24, of 288 Sedway, and three juveniles were booked on charges made by employes of the laundry. They asked that the name of the establishment not be published for fear of future attempts at intimidation.
There were numerous reports of Negroes attempting to intimidate other Negroes who remained on the job. Several Negroes reported harrassment, particularly at shopping centers.
In most cases, charges were not made because the harassing groups dissolved before police could reach the scene, and because persons who might have signed warrants did not know the names of those involved.
Investigating detectives said it simply didn't explode, and that the only damage was the smashed window through which it was tossed.
NINTH INCIDENT
It was the ninth such incident reported since the JSC trouble. Telephoned threats have been received by some white owners of business firms in Negro sections, ahead of the bombings.
The city's police force still was reinforced Friday night by some 1,300 National Guardsmen ordered into the city by Gov. Williams. And police still had at ready their new stock of special riot-dispellant gas - Pepper Fog in case trouble started.
Although anticipated possible new fire bombings during the night.
A they mounted their night watch, a call went out to Negroes and other civil rights sympathizers to gather at Skyline Drive off U.S. 49-N. in the vicinity of Ridgeway Street, for al all-night prayer vigilance.
Some dozen or so stores in downtown Jackson that closed Friday in answer to Negro demands were expected to re-open today. Most were small shops in the 100 and 200 blocks of Capito;, westward from Farish, which have heavy Negro patronage.
Charles Evers, a Negro leader who invited the congressmen and others to Jackson, had called upon all Negro businessmen in the state to close their businesses and come to Jackson for the funeral.
Although business obviously was off in several blocks of Capitol Street During the funeral hour - 2 to 3 p.m. - a significant number of Negroes were among those shopping.∼a 17-year-old senior in high school passing through Jackson State on his way home from his after school job. Born on December 19, 1952, he was one of eight children in his family. His father died when he was young, and his mother recently remarried to a laborer. With dreams of attending the University of California at Los Angeles, Green was a good student, quiet and well-liked by his peers. He was also the star of his track team. He worked daily at the Rag-a-Bag grocery store giving his wages to his mother at the end of each week. He, along with Phillip Lafayette Gibbs was killed in riot at Jackson State University in Mississippi by police. It was overshadowed by the Kent State shooting.
a young promising life ended too soon.
*****
Birth date suggested on 9 Aug 2021 by Graver; FIND A GRAVE ID 49649900
Youth's Funeral Held; Police Hope For Calm
Tension Eases Slightly
By GEORGE WHITTINGTON
Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer
Jackson police and National Guardsmen kept an unrelaxed vigil on crowd activities Friday night, after the burial of James Earl Green went off without a major incident.
But residents, whose anxiety built as the event approached, relaxed somewhat when the rites drew only some 4,000 persons, and those dispersed without incident following the burial in Willow Park Cemetery.
Tens of thousands had been expected, as civil rights and Negro leaders used the occasion to try to build interest toward a fever pitch. Strong warnings from both Gov. John Bell Williams and Mayor Russell Davis -coupled with disclosure that the police had received a full supply of antiriot equipment - was generally believed to have cut into attendance.
The body of 17-year-old Green had been at the funeral home since shortly after he died in a spatter of gunfire at Jackson State College a week before. Ultra-liberal members of Congress, some seeking reelection in states with pivotal Negro votes, visited the city both for the funeral and before it - and denounced officers who fired back at sniping students.
With the burial over at about 3:30 p.m., and a planeload of special visitors on their way back to their jet at Allen C. Thompson Field, police announced an "all clear" at the cemetery at 4.
But a call for an all-night prayer vigil off Mill Street and North West Street, in north Jackson, called for some watchfulness, and many small businessmen, fearful of further fire-bombings, were either guarding their own places or had special security guards on duty.
Police, joined by Highway Patrol, National Guard and some Justice Department agents, maintained a command post at Police Headquarters until after the "all clear".
Young Green was one of two persons killed in an exchange of gunfire a week ago Friday morning at Jackson State College. The other was Phillip Gibbs, 21, only JSC student killed, but whose funeral was held without fanfare last Sunday in Ripley, his home town.
Among the list of "special" visitors led by Sen. Edmund Muskie, D-Me., were football players James Snowden of the Washington Redskins and Lonnie Sanders of the St. Louis Cards, and former Boston Celtic basketball star Sam Jones.
Senators accompanying Muskie were Thomas Eagleton, D-Mo.; Philip Hart, D-Mich.; Harold Hughes, D-Iowa; Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii; Claiborne Tell, D-RI.; Charles Percy, R-Ill., and Ralph Yarbrough D-Tex.
House members include Rep. John Anderson, R-Ill.; Jeffery Coheian, D-Calif.; John Conyers Jr., D-Mich.; Charles C. Diggs Jr., D-Mich.; Robert Eckhart, D-Tex.; Abner Mikva, D-Ill.; William Moorhead, D-Pa.; Adam Clayton Powell, D-N.Y.; Henry Reuss, D-Wise.; and William Steiger, R-Wis.
Also on hand were former Ambassador to the United Nations W. Averell Harriman; NAACP Youth Director James Brown Jr.; U. S. Civil Rights Commission Staff Director Howard Glickstein; National Urban League Director Whitney Young, and Don Durrett, rep resenting the Black Student Union of the State University of New York at Binghampton.
INTIMIDATION FAILS
Negroes openly using intimidatory tactics to try to force business closings for the day were mostly unsuccessful - four of them being jailed on charges of abusive language and disturbing the peace at a local laundry.
Police said Rufus Burton, 24, of 288 Sedway, and three juveniles were booked on charges made by employes of the laundry. They asked that the name of the establishment not be published for fear of future attempts at intimidation.
There were numerous reports of Negroes attempting to intimidate other Negroes who remained on the job. Several Negroes reported harrassment, particularly at shopping centers.
In most cases, charges were not made because the harassing groups dissolved before police could reach the scene, and because persons who might have signed warrants did not know the names of those involved.
Investigating detectives said it simply didn't explode, and that the only damage was the smashed window through which it was tossed.
NINTH INCIDENT
It was the ninth such incident reported since the JSC trouble. Telephoned threats have been received by some white owners of business firms in Negro sections, ahead of the bombings.
The city's police force still was reinforced Friday night by some 1,300 National Guardsmen ordered into the city by Gov. Williams. And police still had at ready their new stock of special riot-dispellant gas - Pepper Fog in case trouble started.
Although anticipated possible new fire bombings during the night.
A they mounted their night watch, a call went out to Negroes and other civil rights sympathizers to gather at Skyline Drive off U.S. 49-N. in the vicinity of Ridgeway Street, for al all-night prayer vigilance.
Some dozen or so stores in downtown Jackson that closed Friday in answer to Negro demands were expected to re-open today. Most were small shops in the 100 and 200 blocks of Capito;, westward from Farish, which have heavy Negro patronage.
Charles Evers, a Negro leader who invited the congressmen and others to Jackson, had called upon all Negro businessmen in the state to close their businesses and come to Jackson for the funeral.
Although business obviously was off in several blocks of Capitol Street During the funeral hour - 2 to 3 p.m. - a significant number of Negroes were among those shopping.∼a 17-year-old senior in high school passing through Jackson State on his way home from his after school job. Born on December 19, 1952, he was one of eight children in his family. His father died when he was young, and his mother recently remarried to a laborer. With dreams of attending the University of California at Los Angeles, Green was a good student, quiet and well-liked by his peers. He was also the star of his track team. He worked daily at the Rag-a-Bag grocery store giving his wages to his mother at the end of each week. He, along with Phillip Lafayette Gibbs was killed in riot at Jackson State University in Mississippi by police. It was overshadowed by the Kent State shooting.
a young promising life ended too soon.
*****
Birth date suggested on 9 Aug 2021 by Graver; FIND A GRAVE ID 49649900
Clarion Ledger; 23 May 1970, Sat; Pages 1 & 5
Youth's Funeral Held; Police Hope For Calm
Tension Eases Slightly
By GEORGE WHITTINGTON
Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer
Jackson police and National Guardsmen kept an unrelaxed vigil on crowd activities Friday night, after the burial of James Earl Green went off without a major incident.
But residents, whose anxiety built as the event approached, relaxed somewhat when the rites drew only some 4,000 persons, and those dispersed without incident following the burial in Willow Park Cemetery.
Tens of thousands had been expected, as civil rights and Negro leaders used the occasion to try to build interest toward a fever pitch. Strong warnings from both Gov. John Bell Williams and Mayor Russell Davis -coupled with disclosure that the police had received a full supply of antiriot equipment - was generally believed to have cut into attendance.
The body of 17-year-old Green had been at the funeral home since shortly after he died in a spatter of gunfire at Jackson State College a week before. Ultra-liberal members of Congress, some seeking reelection in states with pivotal Negro votes, visited the city both for the funeral and before it - and denounced officers who fired back at sniping students.
With the burial over at about 3:30 p.m., and a planeload of special visitors on their way back to their jet at Allen C. Thompson Field, police announced an "all clear" at the cemetery at 4.
But a call for an all-night prayer vigil off Mill Street and North West Street, in north Jackson, called for some watchfulness, and many small businessmen, fearful of further fire-bombings, were either guarding their own places or had special security guards on duty.
Police, joined by Highway Patrol, National Guard and some Justice Department agents, maintained a command post at Police Headquarters until after the "all clear".
Young Green was one of two persons killed in an exchange of gunfire a week ago Friday morning at Jackson State College. The other was Phillip Gibbs, 21, only JSC student killed, but whose funeral was held without fanfare last Sunday in Ripley, his home town.
Among the list of "special" visitors led by Sen. Edmund Muskie, D-Me., were football players James Snowden of the Washington Redskins and Lonnie Sanders of the St. Louis Cards, and former Boston Celtic basketball star Sam Jones.
Senators accompanying Muskie were Thomas Eagleton, D-Mo.; Philip Hart, D-Mich.; Harold Hughes, D-Iowa; Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii; Claiborne Tell, D-RI.; Charles Percy, R-Ill., and Ralph Yarbrough D-Tex.
House members include Rep. John Anderson, R-Ill.; Jeffery Coheian, D-Calif.; John Conyers Jr., D-Mich.; Charles C. Diggs Jr., D-Mich.; Robert Eckhart, D-Tex.; Abner Mikva, D-Ill.; William Moorhead, D-Pa.; Adam Clayton Powell, D-N.Y.; Henry Reuss, D-Wise.; and William Steiger, R-Wis.
Also on hand were former Ambassador to the United Nations W. Averell Harriman; NAACP Youth Director James Brown Jr.; U. S. Civil Rights Commission Staff Director Howard Glickstein; National Urban League Director Whitney Young, and Don Durrett, rep resenting the Black Student Union of the State University of New York at Binghampton.
INTIMIDATION FAILS
Negroes openly using intimidatory tactics to try to force business closings for the day were mostly unsuccessful - four of them being jailed on charges of abusive language and disturbing the peace at a local laundry.
Police said Rufus Burton, 24, of 288 Sedway, and three juveniles were booked on charges made by employes of the laundry. They asked that the name of the establishment not be published for fear of future attempts at intimidation.
There were numerous reports of Negroes attempting to intimidate other Negroes who remained on the job. Several Negroes reported harrassment, particularly at shopping centers.
In most cases, charges were not made because the harassing groups dissolved before police could reach the scene, and because persons who might have signed warrants did not know the names of those involved.
Investigating detectives said it simply didn't explode, and that the only damage was the smashed window through which it was tossed.
NINTH INCIDENT
It was the ninth such incident reported since the JSC trouble. Telephoned threats have been received by some white owners of business firms in Negro sections, ahead of the bombings.
The city's police force still was reinforced Friday night by some 1,300 National Guardsmen ordered into the city by Gov. Williams. And police still had at ready their new stock of special riot-dispellant gas - Pepper Fog in case trouble started.
Although anticipated possible new fire bombings during the night.
A they mounted their night watch, a call went out to Negroes and other civil rights sympathizers to gather at Skyline Drive off U.S. 49-N. in the vicinity of Ridgeway Street, for al all-night prayer vigilance.
Some dozen or so stores in downtown Jackson that closed Friday in answer to Negro demands were expected to re-open today. Most were small shops in the 100 and 200 blocks of Capito;, westward from Farish, which have heavy Negro patronage.
Charles Evers, a Negro leader who invited the congressmen and others to Jackson, had called upon all Negro businessmen in the state to close their businesses and come to Jackson for the funeral.
Although business obviously was off in several blocks of Capitol Street During the funeral hour - 2 to 3 p.m. - a significant number of Negroes were among those shopping.∼a 17-year-old senior in high school passing through Jackson State on his way home from his after school job. Born on December 19, 1952, he was one of eight children in his family. His father died when he was young, and his mother recently remarried to a laborer. With dreams of attending the University of California at Los Angeles, Green was a good student, quiet and well-liked by his peers. He was also the star of his track team. He worked daily at the Rag-a-Bag grocery store giving his wages to his mother at the end of each week. He, along with Phillip Lafayette Gibbs was killed in riot at Jackson State University in Mississippi by police. It was overshadowed by the Kent State shooting.
a young promising life ended too soon.
*****
Birth date suggested on 9 Aug 2021 by Graver; FIND A GRAVE ID 49649900
Youth's Funeral Held; Police Hope For Calm
Tension Eases Slightly
By GEORGE WHITTINGTON
Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer
Jackson police and National Guardsmen kept an unrelaxed vigil on crowd activities Friday night, after the burial of James Earl Green went off without a major incident.
But residents, whose anxiety built as the event approached, relaxed somewhat when the rites drew only some 4,000 persons, and those dispersed without incident following the burial in Willow Park Cemetery.
Tens of thousands had been expected, as civil rights and Negro leaders used the occasion to try to build interest toward a fever pitch. Strong warnings from both Gov. John Bell Williams and Mayor Russell Davis -coupled with disclosure that the police had received a full supply of antiriot equipment - was generally believed to have cut into attendance.
The body of 17-year-old Green had been at the funeral home since shortly after he died in a spatter of gunfire at Jackson State College a week before. Ultra-liberal members of Congress, some seeking reelection in states with pivotal Negro votes, visited the city both for the funeral and before it - and denounced officers who fired back at sniping students.
With the burial over at about 3:30 p.m., and a planeload of special visitors on their way back to their jet at Allen C. Thompson Field, police announced an "all clear" at the cemetery at 4.
But a call for an all-night prayer vigil off Mill Street and North West Street, in north Jackson, called for some watchfulness, and many small businessmen, fearful of further fire-bombings, were either guarding their own places or had special security guards on duty.
Police, joined by Highway Patrol, National Guard and some Justice Department agents, maintained a command post at Police Headquarters until after the "all clear".
Young Green was one of two persons killed in an exchange of gunfire a week ago Friday morning at Jackson State College. The other was Phillip Gibbs, 21, only JSC student killed, but whose funeral was held without fanfare last Sunday in Ripley, his home town.
Among the list of "special" visitors led by Sen. Edmund Muskie, D-Me., were football players James Snowden of the Washington Redskins and Lonnie Sanders of the St. Louis Cards, and former Boston Celtic basketball star Sam Jones.
Senators accompanying Muskie were Thomas Eagleton, D-Mo.; Philip Hart, D-Mich.; Harold Hughes, D-Iowa; Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii; Claiborne Tell, D-RI.; Charles Percy, R-Ill., and Ralph Yarbrough D-Tex.
House members include Rep. John Anderson, R-Ill.; Jeffery Coheian, D-Calif.; John Conyers Jr., D-Mich.; Charles C. Diggs Jr., D-Mich.; Robert Eckhart, D-Tex.; Abner Mikva, D-Ill.; William Moorhead, D-Pa.; Adam Clayton Powell, D-N.Y.; Henry Reuss, D-Wise.; and William Steiger, R-Wis.
Also on hand were former Ambassador to the United Nations W. Averell Harriman; NAACP Youth Director James Brown Jr.; U. S. Civil Rights Commission Staff Director Howard Glickstein; National Urban League Director Whitney Young, and Don Durrett, rep resenting the Black Student Union of the State University of New York at Binghampton.
INTIMIDATION FAILS
Negroes openly using intimidatory tactics to try to force business closings for the day were mostly unsuccessful - four of them being jailed on charges of abusive language and disturbing the peace at a local laundry.
Police said Rufus Burton, 24, of 288 Sedway, and three juveniles were booked on charges made by employes of the laundry. They asked that the name of the establishment not be published for fear of future attempts at intimidation.
There were numerous reports of Negroes attempting to intimidate other Negroes who remained on the job. Several Negroes reported harrassment, particularly at shopping centers.
In most cases, charges were not made because the harassing groups dissolved before police could reach the scene, and because persons who might have signed warrants did not know the names of those involved.
Investigating detectives said it simply didn't explode, and that the only damage was the smashed window through which it was tossed.
NINTH INCIDENT
It was the ninth such incident reported since the JSC trouble. Telephoned threats have been received by some white owners of business firms in Negro sections, ahead of the bombings.
The city's police force still was reinforced Friday night by some 1,300 National Guardsmen ordered into the city by Gov. Williams. And police still had at ready their new stock of special riot-dispellant gas - Pepper Fog in case trouble started.
Although anticipated possible new fire bombings during the night.
A they mounted their night watch, a call went out to Negroes and other civil rights sympathizers to gather at Skyline Drive off U.S. 49-N. in the vicinity of Ridgeway Street, for al all-night prayer vigilance.
Some dozen or so stores in downtown Jackson that closed Friday in answer to Negro demands were expected to re-open today. Most were small shops in the 100 and 200 blocks of Capito;, westward from Farish, which have heavy Negro patronage.
Charles Evers, a Negro leader who invited the congressmen and others to Jackson, had called upon all Negro businessmen in the state to close their businesses and come to Jackson for the funeral.
Although business obviously was off in several blocks of Capitol Street During the funeral hour - 2 to 3 p.m. - a significant number of Negroes were among those shopping.∼a 17-year-old senior in high school passing through Jackson State on his way home from his after school job. Born on December 19, 1952, he was one of eight children in his family. His father died when he was young, and his mother recently remarried to a laborer. With dreams of attending the University of California at Los Angeles, Green was a good student, quiet and well-liked by his peers. He was also the star of his track team. He worked daily at the Rag-a-Bag grocery store giving his wages to his mother at the end of each week. He, along with Phillip Lafayette Gibbs was killed in riot at Jackson State University in Mississippi by police. It was overshadowed by the Kent State shooting.
a young promising life ended too soon.
*****
Birth date suggested on 9 Aug 2021 by Graver; FIND A GRAVE ID 49649900
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