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arrested on this day; the others were detained without charges, then released.  Another 17 were admitted for hospitalization for gaping wounds and internal injuries sustained from police weapons.

III.

The Challenge of A Fortress of Segregation:  What Is To Be Done?

SATURDAY, JUNE the 15, was a day in Jackson Miss., that began in sorrow and mourning for the martyr, Medgar Evers, but it ended on a note of triumph.  For in Jackson in the afternoon fo Saturday, a demonstration of explosive expressiveness occurred on North Faris street near Capital, a tableau of poetic courage and a glorious manifestation of the unconquerable will of the Negro masses of the southland to gain the freedom goals for which Medgar Evers and so many other have given their lives.

I saw a great crowd of kinsmen charge into the solid ranks of steel-helmeted police gunmen with clenched fists upraised and defiant shouts of "Freedom NOW" roaring from their throats.  I saw our glorious youth in the front ranks of the suffering demonstrators with that nameless Saint Joan in the lead. I saw a people manifest their wil

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to secure their rights now, no matter the costs, no matter the odds, no matter the sacrifice.  I saw a people in massed struggle who had come to a concensus that life cannot be lived any longer in the old ways.  I saw a people's rising for freedom, a people who have lost their fear.
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TO EXPERIENCE such a day as this, in Jackson, Mississippi, is to know in all of its dimensions, what the mortally wounded beast of the old order has determinedly resolved.  That is, that Jackson in particular, and Mississippi in general are first among the chosen places in the South, where the forces of white supremacy and the incorrigible profiteers in Negro oppression and deprivation, have fortified themselves for a desperate last stand against the mighty popular offensive for the desegregation and democratization of the South.

There are other place-names in the South whose infamy is associated with the fact that they are garrison cities in the grip of lost battalions of the historically beaten legions of the white supremacists.

Hard fisted cliques of racist politicians rely upon the clubs and guns of utterly de-classed and de-humanized bands of po-