3. Strain, Christopher Barry. “Civil Rights and ... - Freedom Archives

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On the first day of school in 1963, Jasper Brown dropped off his children at the
Bartlett-Yancey Elementary School in Yanceyville, North Carolina; they were four of sixteen
black children enrolled at the formally all-white school . Brown had been one of the original
plaintiffs in the school's integration suit, begun in 1956 . As he returned to his home in the
Blanche community, a few miles away, several carloads of young whites harassed him . They
jammed his car in front, in back, and alongside, boxing him in so he could not pass . He
drove directly to the office of Caswell County Sheriff Frank Daniel and asked for protection .
The sheriff refused, telling him to "get off the street and go ahead on home ." The youths
continued to harass Brown, who pulled into a grocery store to telephone Sheriff Daniel again .
Cursing Brown and threatening to kill him, the youths crowded into the store . Members of
the state highway patrol chanced upon the scene and dispersed the crowd. 2
Four friends volunteered to ride home with Brown . Yelling threats, racial slurs, and
obscenities, the youths again surged around the car. In desperation, Brown wheeled into a
stranger's driveway along the noel road. At the house, owned by a white man, Brown called
~A white interviewer once asked Malcolm X, "Why do you teach black supremacy and
hate?" He replied,'"fo pouron pure fire in return ." Sa Manning Marable, Race . Reform
and Rebellion (Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 1984), 97 .
2"See His Gun, Seggies Run,"~[Baltimore] Afro-American (Febnrary 2, 1963) : 1 .
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