For example, a local weekly, the Yazoo City Herald, printed the names, addresses, and phone numbers of blacks who signed such a petition, in an advertisement taken out by the local citizens’ council. The result was the complete crushing of even this most tentative gesture. The blacks who had held jobs lost them. Their credit was cut off. One grocer who had a little money in the local bank was told to take it elsewhere. Of the fifty-three people who put their names on the list, fifty-one took their names off. Even then many of them did not get their jobs back.
