FP Series #618 - George W. Crockett, Jr. Traditional Cache

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drives: I was going to replace it, then I said "Nah".

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Hidden : 9/12/2010
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Six Hundred Eighteenth in the Famous People (FP) Series - George W. Crockett, Jr.
George William Crockett Jr. (August 10, 1909 – September 7, 1997) was an African American attorney, jurist, and politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.

As large numbers of young civil rights volunteers traveled to the U.S. South in the spring of 1964, Crockett recruited lawyers from the National Lawyers Guild(NLG) to follow them. He founded the National Lawyers Guild’s office in Jackson, Mississippi, and managed the Mississippi Project (a coalition of the NLG and other leading civil rights legal organizations) during the 1964 Freedom Summer.

The infamous murders of the civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner occurred in June of that year. The three had been arrested by local police while investigating the arson of a Black church near Philadelphia, Mississippi. Collaborating with local white supremacist vigilantes, the Neshoba County sheriff released the three men from jail late at night, and other civil rights workers reported their disappearance.

From the NLG office in Jackson, Crockett dispatched Guild lawyers to search for the missing men. The effort was in vain, and, years later, Crockett described his growing despair in the 1995 PBS documentary Mississippi America, narrated by Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee.

In the film, Crockett recounts his drive from Jackson to Meridian in a personal search for the missing men. He survived an effort of the sheriff to arrange his ambush by loudly offering driving directions, while white supremacists loitered nearby. Crockett returned safely to Jackson. He offered a full report to the Justice Department and the FBI, who refused to take the information. The murdered bodies of the 3 young men, one black, two white, were found days later.

This micro sized container is hidden along Crockett Street. It will be hard for some and easy for others, but either way it's important to replace it exactly where it was intended to be in order to preserve its existence. It's about the size and shape of a carmex jar.

 GPSr Accuracy 5.4'
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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

chggvat vg onpx evtug znl or uneqre guna svaqvat vg

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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