Aug 27  The Attempted Murder of George Metcalfe
Channel: Natchez National Historical Park
Date: 2016-08-27

Carlee McNealy, a junior at Natchez Early College Academy, presents a Natchez History Minute about the bombing of George Metcalfe's car on this day, August 27 in 1965 by the Ku Klux Klan. The president of the local chapter of the NAACP, Meltcalfe had presented a petition just the week before to desegregate the Natchez public schools. Metcalfe survived the bombing but the incident galvanized the resolve of the local African-American community.