Word: biloxi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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KAREN LAMEY Biloxi, Miss...
Stumping the state from Biloxi to Neshoba County, Johnson urged ratification of the amendment in language the crowds could understand. "I would prefer," he said, "that our own registrars retain responsibility over qualifications and voting rather than see them swept aside and replaced by federal snoopers in every county of the state." Ratification of the amendment, he declared, would be "a vote of confidence in our lawmakers and will show the rest of the nation that Mississippians are reasonable people...
...been achieved in the last two years than most observers thought possible. For one thing, Negro children have now been enrolled without trouble in some of the rural areas where white opposition was fiercest. Mississippi, the last holdout, bowed to court orders and admitted Negro first-graders in Biloxi, Jackson, and Leake County. At the University of Mississippi, two students have just been expelled for taking part in a demonstration against a bi-racial group of visitors to the campus. In Tuskegee, Ala., public schools that had closed rather than integrate are now open again on an integrated basis...
...group plans to leave Thursday and to spend seven days in Biloxi, living in the church adjacent to the community center and eating meals prepared by the Cliffies...
Eight Harvard and Radcliffe students will spend Spring vacation in Biloxi, Miss, refurbishing an integrated community center, James R. Blanning, sponsor of the group and a member of the United Ministry, announced last night...