Viewing page 1 of 12

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

May 27, 1961
I

Dear Mother & Dad:

I suppose you have been reading the papers and you know what I am doing in Jackson, Mississippi. It seems almost unbelievable that I could actually be in Mississippi.

The trial was yesterday. Our lawyers were beautiful in their every word and action. They built up such a beautiful case that I did not believe even a Mississippi judge could do anything except acquit us. They dropped two of the charges which they originally charged us with; they were "inciting to riot" and "failure to obey an officer". The lawyers tried to prove that the Mississippi national guard had us under arrest from the time we passed the Alabama border.