point, on September 29, after four bombings in eight days in the town of McComb, Mississippi, three Klansmen were arrested off the street. They admitted that they chose bombing victims weekly out of a hat. They were released on suspended sentences. The judge ruled that they had been “unduly provoked” by “unhygienic” outsiders of “low morality.” And, that same day, thirteen civil rights workers were arrested for the crime of Southern hospitality—“serving food without a license,” the charge read.
