Biography
Arrington W. High was a journalist, and civil rights activist who published the anti-segregation newspaper Eagle Eye. He was arrested and fined three separate times for distributing his newspaper without a municipal permit and for publishing criticism of school segregation. After his third conviction was overturned the courts warned local officials that they could not continue to use unlawful arrests to disrupt his First Amendment protected publishing. Officials then had him declared legally insane and forcibly committed to the Mississippi State Asylum. After five months he escaped from the asylum and fled Mississippi with the help of Civil Rights leader T. R. M. Howard by hiding inside a casket that was shipped to Chicago. In Chicago he resumed publishing the Eagle Eye in exile for a number of years.
