Since last fall, more than 100 complaints against Mississippi have been sent to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission in Washington. They tell of hard-boiled local politicians who coldly ignore Negroes asking to vote, midnight terrorists flinging everything from Molotov cocktails to bags of garbage in efforts to intimidate integrationist forces, welfare officials denying Government-supplied food to needy Negro children.
By law, the Civil Rights Commission can only listen, watch and "submit reports" to the President. But last week the group went the limit with a "special report" that caused quite a stir.
Mississippi's civil rights record is so bad, wrote the...