MINNIS JACK Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee A Chro

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MINNIS JACK. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. A Chronology of Violence and Intimidation in Mississippi Since 1961. Illustrated. 19 pages. Small folio, pictorial wrappers, stapled; lightly rubbed. Los Angeles: Friends of SNCC, 1964

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Research was done originally by Jack Minnis and published in the Congressional Record, 4 April, 1963. A detailed record of the terrible violence in rural Mississippi during the early years of the civil rights struggle. 'February 6, 1962, Clarksdale, Coahoma County: Miss Bessie Turner, 19 a Negro was walking with a young man down a Clarksdale street when Clarksdale police officers stopped them and accused Miss Turner of having been involved in a theft.' Miss Turner said she was taken to jail where she was forced to unclothe and lie on her back . . . one of the policemen beat her between the legs with his belt.' Pages and pages of similar horrific incidents.