NEGROES TAKEN OFF BASE
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GREENVILLE (Mississippi), Feb. 2. Sixty Negroes and civil rights workers fighting, cursing and biting were dragged by military police from an abandoned building on an Air Force base here today.
The demonstrators had held j a “live in” to dramatise I Negro poverty. United Press International reported. They demanded food, jobs and clothing. A group of 150 air policemen moved into the building after the bi-racial group turned down a plea from Major-General R. W. Puryear to leave peacefully. Demonstrators huddled together as the unarmed officers entered. When the airmen began to pick up the demonstrators physically, many fought back and were pulled kicking and screaming from the building. A number of air policemen were bitten and kicked as they moved the demonstrators outside.
The military officers were under orders to use as little force as possible.
The demonstrators were hauled outside to a parade ground where they huddled
together and began singing freedom songs.
There was no indication whether they would be taken off the base.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30975, 3 February 1966, Page 13
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174NEGROES TAKEN OFF BASE Press, Volume CV, Issue 30975, 3 February 1966, Page 13
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