[wardaddy]

Yes...

Most Southern Jews...being Southern(I know Jews who sent their kids to Council schools) stayed out of the squabble between the SPLC/SCLC/Freedom Riders and the Klan/WCC/SSC etc until they found themselves guilty by association with the preponderance of Jews in the Freedom Rider ranks.

The Klan considered them collaborators and since they were Jewish that made it easier...but the Klan also targeted Southern Non-Jewish Whites who were symapthetic to civil rights.....a friend of my dad's had his home leveled by a bomb in Jackson. Ironically, his grandaughter was later carjacked and killed by black thugs in the early 90s.

I remember reading that the Meridian sherrif who was pretty damned tuff, knew about the bomb plot and waited with his select group of deputies purposedly to show the Klan that they could not operate in his town as they saw fit.

They waited to pounce at the right time and gave no quarter but I think one (maybe the snitch) survived....I'm pretty sure the woman driver was killed.

Oh...well...like i said the reality was a bit more complicated than the movie..lol (not really funny)

Did you know Sela Ward?

[dixiechick2000]

"Did you know Sela Ward?"

She and my sister were the same age, and were friends. They went to Lamar Academy together, and graduated in a whopping big class of 45.