FBI surveyed the murder of George Lee. Suspect never tried

As it turns out, the FBI investigated the murder case of Bellzoni's pastor George Lee, according to the record that the institution recorded a murder situation for the two men.

However, the local prosecutor refused to take the incident to the grand jury.

Suspects Pek Ray and Joe David Watson Senior were members of the Caucasian Council of Small Cities, both of whom died in the 1970s.

Mr. Lee's close friend Ernest White said that he interviewed Newsday after 2000 and constantly suspected that local Handy Ray Ray and Gravel Collector Watson were involved in Lee's murder. Mr. White had doubts because of its reputation, "White told reporters Stephanie Saul.

Before Mr. Lee's murder, Watson was arrested because he was shot at random by a black walker's house but was not guilty.

Some of Lee's friends believed that it was part of a larger conspiracy involving influential people of the community who was trying to silence Lee who was encouraging black voting registration It was also.

"A big wheel paid them," White became a city councilor for several years after Li's death.

FBI has released a survey record on news day under the Information Asymmetric Prevention Law. Many names of the records were marked, but it became clear that the FBI named Watson and Ray.

The witnesses left the street corner of the downtown where two men were standing, entered the green two tones of Mercury · Convertible of Ray, left just before shooting, immediately scooped out and immediately came home saw.

One of the witnesses said that a fatal shot was fired from such a car. However, no one was able to identify the shooter.

A news day reporter said that Ray had a convertible painted red after taking a picture, that the Watson pickup was taking a cut-off equipped with the same bullet that was used to kill Lee showed that.

In addition, Watson and Ray have insight into the differences in that night's activities.

Ray's wife told the investigator that he picked up her from the movie at 11 pm and went home. But she does not remember the name of the movie.

Ray's daughter, Doris Dalton, did not think that there was a possibility that her father had committed such a crime. And as she went to university, it was her idea to paint the convertible.

The agent assigned evidence to the local prosecutor Stanny Sanders, but retained the Watson 's shotgun and ammunition for use in trials. Thunder who died in 1972 refused prosecution.

According to the FBI 's memo of 1956, the investigation "The criminal act proved to be the cause of Mr. Lee' s death, but the subject 's identity is the jury.

Sanders told the agent that Humphreys county grand jury "will not prosecute, probably with positive evidence."

Sanders suggested that Mr. Bellzoni had settled after the murder case. He believed to harm racial relations to resume the problem. The US Department of Justice did not raise a civil action because it was not able to prove the assertion that Mr. Lee was killed for the exercise of voting rights.

"The 20 gauge double barrel shotgun is personally returned to Watson by the FBI's agent, the file points out.

That fall, the political campaign was rejected, accusing the exercise of voting rights and school discrimination ban. The Civic Council supported five candidates for the president. Democratic chairman Bidwell Adams announced that blacks could be Democrats, but they were not Mississippi Democrats.

"We do not intend to vote for the black people in this primary," Adams said. In any case, blacks would not have supported any of the governor candidates. Anyway, Aaron Henry, a black leader of Clarksdale, later observed.

Brown II follows the death of Lee

On May 31, 1955, the Supreme Court ordered Brown II to be transferred immediately after the murder of Lee Normal and to consolidate South at all discreet speeds. This word seemed tough for a lot of people, as Brown II stated to reaffirm its initial decision.

The anger this time was higher than before and confusion was dominated by many communities in the south including Mississippi Delta.

Three weeks later, Vicksburg's NAACP submitted a request for an "immediate procedure for reorganizing a public school on a non-isolated basis" signed by 140 parents.

In Natchez of the following week, 75 parents made similar petition. Parents filed lawsuits with Jackson and several weeks later Clarksdale and Delta parents of Yazoo City joined the growth movement. Which parent is signing the petition is truly an act of courage and the leader of the NAACP Medgar Evers has guaranteed that they know all the possible outcomes that people are signing.

Evers were later murdered and the widow, Meelee Evers later wrote the assurance that parents could also delete their name if the pressure got too big.

The Negro teachers were regaining support backed by concern that their work would be lost if identified by their movements. Myrlie Evers wrote.

In addition, most black teachers have problems because they are inferior per se. Few people have advanced degrees or educational background outside of Mississippi. Many of the black teachers lost their jobs as soon as they had no degree.

Most boards of education claimed that the petition did not meet specific requirements and claimed that they did not present any actions and simply terminated the problem. This advice, at least in Vicksburg, came from the state attorney general.

However, the Caucasian Council of Caucasians has not seen the closed situation. A new chapter was formed rapidly, in the city of Yazoo, Yazoo Herald's paid advertisement was posted as the "public service" of the Yazoo City Citizens' Association, the name, address, telephone number of the complainant.

Myrlie Evers told how the victim of Yazoo City's petitioner immediately overcame the possibility of change.

"Jasper Mims, a treasurer of the local NAACP, was a carpenter for thirty years, and he earned up to $ 150 a week.

"Hoover Harvey's plumbing workshop, where the customer was mostly white, quickly fell to $ 20 a week.Both Mims and Harvey removed names from the application, but what helps pressure I did not have it. "

51 of 53 signatures on the petition have been deleted. The two people who left the county did not remove that name from the list, which was a story in most of the cities where the petition was submitted.

Medgar Evers talks at the conference from urban to metropolitan city and urges the petitioner to detain the company.

However, it was not so. Jackson NAACP became a distribution point for food and clothing soon as a petitioner around the state deals with. People told NAACP that they called the NAACP and were threatened and left the plantation. They had problems with police, money, voting, and marriage.

People killed as violence increases

Increasing violence was not limited to delta. Lamar Smith was murdered in Brookhaven on Saturday morning, August 13, 1955.

A 60-year-old farmer and a veteran of the Second World War, a number of people shot by white men in the daytime were watching the murder in the county of Judge Brady, the author of Black Monday at the Lincoln County Court lawn Despite that, it was not officially identified. No one accepts that I saw white people shoot black people.

Mr. Smith who voted in the first election 11 days ago explained polling method by absentee ballot to black people to avoid violence in opinion poll. He may also be exercising against the county coach.

NAACP accused the citizen council for murder in a brochure entitled M for Murder and Mississippi.

Despite the murderous incident occurring on Saturday morning when there are plenty of people in the square in the court, the investigators said there were no witnesses.

Historian John Dittmer says that: "The sheriff saw that a white man was leaving blood throughout the body, but I did not tell anyone about witnessing the shooting."

After that, white farmer Noah Smith was murdered with a "courageous lawyer" warrant submitted by JJ Blend.

Between 1956 and 1959, Medgar Ebers spent a lot of time to investigate racial murder cases. Formally, in the year that white people killed 10 black people in civil rights struggle, there was no conviction.

Evers & # 39; The investigation was to investigate, raising complaints, issuing a statement of anger, taking the reporter to the crime scene, issuing a press release and involvement in the federal government.

(Excerpts from charges of treason, Mississippi citizenship revisited, Susan Claufer, M. Susan Crawffer, 2005)

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