Beaches, Blood, and Ballots: A Black Doctor's Civil Rights Struggle

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Notes Chapter 4 1. The Biloxi police reported this first wade-in to an agent of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission on May 27, 1959. However, the Biloxi Police Department had first reported to the Sovereignty Commission that I, along with Wilmer B. McDaniel, a funeral director, was a member of the NAACP in response to an agent's inquiry on February 16,1959. SeeVan Landingham to Director, State Sovereignty Commission, 16 February 1959, State Sovereignty Commission Files (SSC Files), Victim Classification, ID: 2-56-16 -1-1-1, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Mississippi; and Van Landingham to Director, State Sovereignty Commission, 27 May 1959, SSC Files, Victim, ID: 2-56-1-11-1-1-1. 2. Daily Herald (Biloxi), 5 October 1959, pp.i-2. 3. Van Landingham to Director, State Sovereignty Commission, 14 October 1959, SSC Files, Victim, ID: 2-56-1-16-2-1-1. 4. Van Landingham to Director, State Sovereignty Commission, 4 November 1959, SSCFiles, Victim, ID: 2-56-1-19-2-1-1. 5. Van Landingham, Memo to File 5-4,4 May 1960, SSC Files, Victim, ID: 2-56-1-33-5-1-1, p. 6. 6. Daily Herald (Biloxi), n January1965, p. 2. Chapter 5 1. Bob Thomas, Investigative Report, "Beach Disturbances, Biloxi, Harrison Co., Mississippi," 22 April 1960 to 2 May 1960, SSC Files, Victim ID: 5-4-0-50-11-1-1, pp. 2-3. 2. "Police Accused of Aiding Mob," Commercial Appeal (Memphis), 10 August 1960, p. 28. 3. Bob Thomas, Investigative Report, "Beach Disturbances, Biloxi, Harrison Co., Mississippi," 22 April 1960 to 2 May 1960, SSC Files, Victim, ID: 5-4-0-50-11-1-1, p. 5. 4. Clarion-Ledger (Jackson), 26 April 1960, p. i.; Jackson Daily News, 26 April 1960, pp. 1-2. 209 210 Notes 5. Daily Herald (Biloxi), 26 April 1960, p.i. 6. Van Landingham to Director, State SovereigntyCommission, 20 October 1959, SSCFiles, Victim, ID: 5-4-0-10-7-1-1, p. 6. 7. Bob Thomas, Investigative Report, "Beach Disturbances, Biloxi,Harrison Co., Mississippi," 22 April 1960 to 2 May 1960, SSC Files, Victim, ID: 5-4-0-50-11-1-1, p. 3. 8. Ibid., p. 4. 9. Clarion-Ledger (Jackson), 26 April 1960, pp. 1-2. 10. Daily Herald (Biloxi), 25 April 1960,pp. 1-2; Amsterdam News (New York), 30April 1960, pp.i, 10-11, and 34-3511 . Daily Herald (Biloxi), 25April 1960, p. 2. 12. Ibid., p.i. 13. Commercial Appeal (Memphis), 26 April 1960. 14. Jackson Advocate, 30 April 1960. 15. Clarion-Ledger (Jackson), 26 April 1960. 16. Ibid. 17. Commercial Appeal (Memphis), 26 April 1960. 18. Jackson Daily News, 26 April 1960, p. 2. 19. Daily Herald (Biloxi), 27April 1960, p.i, and 30 April 1960, p.i; Jackson Daily News, 29 April 1960, p.i. 20. Daily Herald (Biloxi), 27April 1960, pp.i-2. 21. Van Landingham, Memo to File 5-4, "Beach Integration, Harrison County, Mississippi," 4 May 1960, SSCFiles, Victim, ID: 2-56-1-33-6-1-1, p. 5. 22. Daily Herald (Biloxi), 10May 1960, pp. 1-2. 23. Van Landingham, Memo to File 5-4, "Beach Integration, Harrison County, Mississippi/' 5May 1960, SSCFiles, Victim, ID: 9-22-0-9-2-1-1, p.i. 24. Thomas to Governor Barnett, "Beach Disturbances/' 2May 1960, SSC Files, Victim, ID: 5-4-0-51-4-1-1, p.4; Clarion-Ledger (Jackson), 2 May 1960; Jackson Advocate, 7 May1960. 25. Van Landingham, Memo to File 5-4, "Beach Integration, Harrison County, Mississippi," 5May 1960, SSCFiles, Victim, ID: 2-56-1-34-1-1-1. 26. Daily Herald (Biloxi), 9 May 1960, p.i. 27. Jackson Advocate, 21May 1960. Chapter 6 1. Thomas to Director, State Sovereignty Commission, 27June 1960,SSC Files, Victim, ID: 2-56-1-41-1-1-1, p. 2. 2. Thomas to Director, State Sovereignty Commission with enclosure, 27 June 1960, SSCFiles, Victim, ID: 2-57-0-24-3-1-1 and ID: 2-56-1-36-1-1-1. 3. James W. Silver, Mississippi: The Closed Society, new enlarged edition (New York: Harcourt, Brace &World, 1966), p. 271. 4. Ibid. Notes 211 5. Van Landingham to Director, State Sovereignty Commission, "NAACP, Gulfport, Mississippi," 16February 1959, SSCFiles, Victim, ID: 2-56-1-6-2-1-1. 6. Undated four-page handwritten list, SSCFiles, Victim, ID: 99-93-0-774 -1-1; undated two-page typed list...