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» « FD-302 (Rev, 1-25-60) _ SEDERAL BUREAU OF investicaSon so f _ pate 3/31/61 Mr. MEDGAR WILEY EVERS, 2332 Guynes Street, Jackson, Mississippi, Field Secretary, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, State of Mississippi, was inter- viewed on March 29, 1961, and furnished the following signed statement: "Jackson, Mississippi “March 29, 1961 a sini, l2-Medgar-W. “Evers | “make tho’ following: fee aes ion a: ntary statement to and (bya) ho have idem , es to me gents of the Federal Bureau of Investiga- "I am Field Secretary for the National Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Colored People for the State of Mississippi and live in Jackson, Mississippi. "At abo 225 PM on March 28, 196] I_was in _ the office of IKntoc) | who is a and who is a student at : ate College came to me, "He told me that some of the students at Jackson State College were marching down Lynch Street had been arrested on March 27, 1961, for sitting in at the City Library on N, State St. He said the group reached Lynch and Poindexter Street and Saw a Police barricade. The Students, about 50 in number then. -:) sory - ene, - 2 ay Ec, 7 turned north on Poindexter Street and walked towards **"= "~~ ——-- oss” Péarl St. and turned east on Pearl, marching east to the vicinity of the Summers Hotel when they were Cc Hw i" Date dictated —3/30/6]_ This document contcins neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It ds the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents Gre not to be distributed outside your agency. . ~4-