The Mississippi NAACP is calling for a federal hate crime investigation after white high school students put a noose around a black football player's neck and "yanked backwards," WLOX reports.

The incident happened Oct. 13 at Stone County High in Wiggins by the locker rooms. Most of the residents WLOX interviewed had not heard about it.

School officials refused to tell the student's mother whether they had disciplined anyone, citing federal privacy law, the Associated Press said. No one has been charged with a crime.

"No child should be in fear of going to school," state NAACP president Derrick Johnson said. "This is 2016, not 1916."

The news comes only two years after students at Ole Miss put a noose around the neck of a statue of James Meredith, the man who integrated the university. One of the men involved there was sentenced to probation and another went to prison.