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We must rid the world of this evil. We feel that we have Jim Crowe on the ropes and if it takes a death to face him finally to the ground, then that death is well spent. I hope that will not be necessary, but I am reminded of Mohandus Ghandi and H. Thoreau our own American who fought evil with the philosophy of non-violence as his weapon.

He was thrown in jail and was visited by his friend, Emerson. Emerson asked, "What are you doing? Why are you in jail?" Thoreau's answer was simply, "Why are you outside". This, I feel, is our message to the outside world. We want to fill these jails to the rafters until the world can see and the people of Mississippi can see that it is much better to be behind bars for a cause than to be