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NO 44-1250) -C- Enclosures to U. S. Attorney, Jackson, Mississippi: One copy of article on Page 5A of State-Times, a daily newspaper at Jackson, Mississippi, on March 30, 1961, regarding the inci- dents occurring after the trial in Municipal Court, Jackson, Mississippi, that date. . DETAILS: This limited investigation was instituted on the basis of a request made of the Federal Bureau of Investigation by Mr. JOHN DOAR, Acting Assistant Attorney. General, Civil Rights Division, United States Department of Justice. MEDGAR EVERS, Jackson, Mississippi, a representative of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), informed the Department on March 29, 1961, that fifty persons had been demonstrating in Jackson that day in connection with the arrest of nine students for a sit-in at the public library in Jackson and that they had been beaten by the police. ~2-