(Atlanta, Georgia)
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) has reported "more than 50" bombing or buming incidents aimed at civil rights workers and local negroes in Mississippi in a 4-month period. The Atlanta SNCC office said arson and dynamite attacks had levelled 21 churches and other buildings, and had partially destroyed 31 other buildings between June 16 and October 4. Firebombings and molotov cocktails were reported in Brandon, McComb, Moss Point, Ruleville, So So, Canton, Vicksburg, Natchez, Laurel, Hattiesburg, Jackson, Meridian, Summit and Sharon.
Barly attacks by nightriders were directed at churches, homes, offices or businesses associated with the Mississippi Summer Project, but later church bombings seemed to occur at random. The only injuries reported despite the heavy bombings were on September 20 in McComb when two children were hurt in the bombing of the home of a local rights leader, and in Vicksburg on October 4, when two civil rights ‘workers sleeping in the Vicksburg Freedom House were cut by flying class after an explosion. Mississ= ippi whites lso received some attacks. A church pastored by a white man was burned on June 26 in Clinton after the minister spoke to a Negro bible class. On August 27, the office of a white moderate newpaper in Jackson was bombed, and two offices owned by Natchez Mayor John Mosser were bombed September 14. Mayor Nosser's home was bombed September 25, and a Sharon store and postal station managed by whites was bombed September 26.