Word: biloxi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Biloxi: Mrs. Green, a Negro resident of nearby Ocean Springs, beaten by whites at a circus here. Her 15-year-old son also beaten. When she brought police to the scene, warned to drop the matter or face possible arrest. NAACP investigating the incident...
...merchant: "Beckwith was reared in the sort of place white people ought not to live in." Yet the premises were cluttered with mementos of the family's better days: a letter to Beckwith's grandmother from Jeff Davis: pieces of china from Beauvoir, the Davis mansion near Biloxi. To Beckwith, these must have suggested lush plantations, colonnaded mansions-and white supremacy...
DOROTHY CARLSEN Biloxi, Miss...
...bills Congress customarily stipulates that anything built with public funds shall be "for public use." In 1951 Mississippi unquestioningly accepted that familiar provision along with $1,133,000 in federal funds to repair the hurricane-torn sea wall along the Gulf Coast beach stretching some 24 miles westward from Biloxi. So far as segregationist Mississippi was concerned, the "public" that could use the beach was white only...
That long-standing Deep South definition was challenged last week by the Justice Department in a suit filed against the city of Biloxi. In a brand-new kind of assault on segregation in the South's "public" parks and beaches, the U.S. argued that Negroes, too, are members of the public, entitled to equal use of the public beach. The suit was a quick legal response to a protest staged by Negroes on Biloxi's beach in April. Club-wielding whites mauled the Negro bathers; in a nightmare of ambush and reprisal, eight Negroes and two whites were...