King--July, 1964 WATS Line Calls (Mary E. King papers , 1962-1999; Z: Accessions, M82-445, Box 1, Folder 8)

July 1964 WATS line calls. An uptick in violence and harassment can be seen here. Highlights of this lengthy folder include the passage of the Civil Rights Act; out-of-state congressmen witnessing Mary Lane's 9th unsuccessful attempt to register to vote in Greenwood, Mississippi; the July 9th Freedom House bombing in McComb, Mississippi; a number of church burnings; a variety of beatings--in jail, on the streets, in cars, in stores and restaurants, in doctors' offices, in courthouses when people tried to register to vote--; and torchings of people's cars and tear-gassing and bombing of their houses. McComb experienced 5 bombings in July. The July 24th list of phone calls made when a car full of civil rights workers was thought to be missing conveys the alarm experienced during Freedom Summer when civil rights workers traveled. In one incident in which Silas McGhee, a local Greenwood youth, was set upon by whites when he tried to integrate a theater, his brother Clarence, a military v