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#BacktoSchool #tdih 1966 Grenada, Miss. school board postponed school rather than open doors to African American students who had registered to attend the two “white schools.” Read ⬇️a daily log from CRMvet. zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/gren…
CRMvet log from schools opening, 10 days later: "Sept. 12. A huge white mob surrounds Grenada's schools. Equipped with 2-way radios, they bar all approaches. Scouts in pick-up trucks search for Negro students (grades 1-12) coming to school and direct the mob to attack them. " 1/6
"There are few police in evidence & they do nothing to halt the violence. Some cars carrying Negro children manage to drop the kids off, but others are blocked. The majority of the 250 or so students are walking to school in 1's and 2's. . ." 2/6
"...and they are set upon by the roving bands of whites who beat them with clubs, chains, bullwhips, and pipes. This is not a spontaneous mob, this is a military-style action organized and led by the KKK." 3/6
"Less than half the 250 children manage to reach the schools, the rest, bruised, bleeding, and terrified retreat back to Bellflower Baptist church which now resembles a battle zone first-aid station more than a place of worship." 4/6
"News reporters and photographers are also viciously set upon. 'Some of the newsmen needed a cleaning,' Constable Grady Carroll explains a week later. 'If they tell a lie, they need a whupping from anybody who wants to give it to them.'" 5/6 📷News photographer beaten by KKK 
Remember, this was 1966. When teaching about CRM, we must include high level of state sanctioned white supremacist violence and terrorism against African American children, teachers, clergy, press, white allies, & more. 6/6 #teachoutsidtextbook Read more: zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/gren…
