Word: barnetts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Five hours before addressing a highly unpredictable audience in Sanders Theater Ross C. Barnett, Governor of Mississippi, relaxed in his Boston hotel suit and discussed with a CRIMSON reporter possible questions his speech might raise. He had just returned from a visit to the office of Gov. Endicott Peabody '40, where he was "very courteously received...
...Barnett said he hoped he could make it clear that segregation is not the same thing as racial hatred. "Why, we work right along side the Nergo in our factories; we do everything we can for him," the Governor explained. "We spend 70 per cent of our state funds for education on Negro schools...
...Before Barnett's speech, a second Negro will today seek admittance to the University of Mississippi...
Tonight, Ross Barnett, Governor of the sovereign State of Mississippi, will appear in Sanders Theatre, sponsored by the Law School Forum, a recognized student organization in the University. Pending against Governor Barnett are charges of criminal contempt of court. Time, though she may bear all her sons away, leaves the wisdom of our Administration undiminished. Let him sing...
...Governor Barnett will not be the first unpopular speaker to present problems for Harvard and Cambridge authorities...