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This is a single, original art piece in acrylic paint. Do what is right and good. The short video is set to a simple "home-made" African-style drum beat. Enjoy!

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[Qarrie]

Somehow, Ware survives the shooting. He is charged with attempting to murder Sheriff Johnson. Ware is tried and convicted by an all-white jury and sentenced to prison.

[Qarrie]

Movement activists close to the case believe that Johnson was trying to kill Ware as a favor to the white overseer of Ichuway Plantation who was jealous of Ware over a woman.

[Qarrie]

Federal "Jury Tampering" Frameup n Albany GA - T origins f ts case go deep 2 t roots f t southern system f racially-biased njustice. Back n 1961, Charlie Ware, a 45 yr old Black field hand, wz arrestd by Baker Co. Sheriff on a charge tt he had been drunk n public earlier tt day. Wn ty arrive at t jail n t Sheriff's car, t Sheriff shoots Ware 3 xs n t neck, alleg' tt t slightly-built Ware had attacked hm w a knife tt Johnson had somehow overlookd when he searchd Ware at t xf t arrest.

[Qarrie]

Bumber sticker:

Boldly going nowhere.

[Qarrie]

The "Americus Four" remain in jail under threat of death from August to November when a Federal appeals court overturns the Seditious Conspiracy charges as an unconstitutional abuse of police power. But holding activists in jail on death-sentence charges does not stop the Movement. While mass arrests, police violence, and threat of the death penalty does manage to temporarily dampen direct-action protests, voter registration and political organizing continues.

[Qarrie]

Defense lawyers ask the Department of Justice to intervene. U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy tells the press on August 31st that the FBI saw no police brutality or misconduct, and that the department would not challenge the Seditious Conspiracy prosecution. Movement activists see this as a cynical political ploy by the Kennedys to curry favor with segregationists in anticipation of the 1964 election.

[JakEyeNEye]

Most members of the white mob fled to Texas, but nine were tried and three found guilty of violations of the U.S. Enforcement Act of 1870 which had been designed to provide federal protection for the civil rights of blacks.

[JakEyeNEye]

Moses told the Senate committee last year that sanctioned murder to intimidate black voters in the Deep South got its start with the weak federal response to the Colfax (Louisiana) Massacre on Easter Sunday in 1873 when at least 70 and perhaps as many as 280 blacks were killed by a white mob in the wake of a disputed election.

[JakEyeNEye]

I was in Mississippi in 1964 because the SNCC staff felt the only way to stop the killings of black Americans in the South who were registering voters was to recruit a large number of white volunteers because they would attract the attention of the national media.

[JakEyeNEye]

"Jimmy Travis slipped behind the wheel & Randolph Blackwell crowded me beside him n a Snick Chevy in front of t Voter Registration Office n Greenwood, Mississippi... Jimmy zigzagged out of town 2 escape an unmarked car, but as we headed west 8, it trailed us & swept past, firing automatic weapons pitting t Chevy w/ bullets. Jimmy cried out & slumped; I reached over 2 grab t wheel & fumbled 4 t brakes as we glided off n2 t ditch, our windows blown out, a bullet caught n Jimmy's neck."