The protesters were met by white segregationists who violently assaulted them.

After the War, similar charges were used by white segregationists against advocates of equal rights for African Americans.

He was beaten by white segregationists in 1964 while helping to register black voters in Mississippi.

"It is all too typical of many white segregationists who were segregationists by day but quite integrationists at night."

One of the students, Andrew Goodman, was among three who were killed by white segregationists.

Dodd said that Rainach hurt him "with the scared white segregationists".

To the white segregationists then dominant in Congress, he was a nightmare come true.

Moye said "Indianola Academy's relatively quick organization and construction could only have been the result of massive organization on the part of white segregationists."

Mr. Beckwith, a white segregationist, had been tried twice in 1964; both times the all-white juries had deadlocked.

In 1994, Byron De La Beckwith, a white segregationist, was convicted of the crime.