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Friday is the 20th anniversary of
one of the first major civil rights
victories in Mississippi ? the
beginning of classes for the University
of Mississippi's first black
student, James Meredith.
Meredith was escorted to the Oxford.
Miss., campus by federal
marshals, following riots that
required 3,000 soldiers to stop, but left
two people dead.
Meredith's civil rights action and
other major episodes that helped
transform the South politically,
socially and economically since World
War II will be documented and
examined in a college TV course
being developed by USC and South
Carolina Educational Televison
Network.
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Jack Bass. He is a Nieman Fellow at
Harvard, author of several books
about the South and a former journalist.
"There is no course equivalent to
'The American South Come of Age,'
and the use of television in its instruction
will be especially appropriate
because of the role the
medium has played as an agent for
change in recent Southern history,"
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pilot for the course with an $80,000
grant from the National Endowment
for the Humanities.
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awarded an additional $150,000 in
outright funds and $115,000, which
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1984. Production will include interviews
of historical figures,
historical footage from USC's
Movietonews collection and other
sources, and on-location shooting
throughout the 11 states that once
formed the Confederacy.
The video pilot captures the tension
of one of the most important confrontations
between state and federal
authorities that was felt and seen
when Meredith enrolled at the
University of Mississippi. Bass'
course will allow students to view
events that changed the South's
character and bring those moments
into perspective as living historymakers
analyze their early motives
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morning, because even if he had been officially appointed
police chief, he would have to be bonded and sworn in....
,4He refused to go and he pulled his pistol on the mayor and
we arrested him...and got him taken to jail," he said. When
the "police chief" was released, he went to a justice court
judge, who was also his sister-in-law, and filed assault
charges, Calaham said.
Carthan was sentenced to three years in jail. The other
members of the group received suspended three-year sentences
and were fined. The appeal of the case was denied last
month by the Mississippi Supreme Court, Calaham said. The
"police chief" was given immunity for testifying by the
judge.
In October 1981, Carthan also was convicted on what
Calaham called "trumped up" charges of giving false infnrmotinn
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appeared on a fictitious delivery receipt used as collateral
for a loan, he said.
Despite testimony by handwriting analysis that the
signature was forged and "continually changing testimony
by the two admitted swindlers," according to a campaign
brochure, Carthan was convicted and sentenced to an additional
three years in prison and fined $5,000. The case is still
under appeal, Calaham said.
Carthan and his brother, Joe, also have been charged with
murdering one of the black aldermen who opposed him
during a convenience store robbery in June 1981 after the
mayor left office. One man arrested for the murder told a
local newspaper he was being pressured by police to implicate
the Carthan brothers in the murder, Calaham said.
Another man, arrested with the first man, pleaded guilty to
a lesser charge and testified that the brothers had ordered
the murder. The case goes to trial Oct. 19, Calaham said, and
the maximum penalty is death.
No appeals to federal and state agencies have started any
investigations into the matter, he said.
Calaham said he feels the apathetic climate today about
racism in the country can be traced to "our sick president."
"He (Reagan) says it's OK to do all these things to black
people," he said, citing the president's support of not denying
federal funds to private schools that discriminate against
blacks.
"He's saying, 'Black people don't have any rights,"'
Calaham added. "When the president said 'We're going to
give the rights back to the states' ? OK, that's the same thing
they did 100 years ago when (Rutherford B.) Hayes was j
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problems in Newark, N.J., and towns in the South with black
mayors. "We just happened to get a little publicity."
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