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What's playing at the Roxy? I'll tell you what's playing at the Roxy: A picture about a Minnesota man, so in love with a Mississippi girl that he sacrifices everything and moves all the way to Biloxi-that's what's playing at the Roxy! -Guys and Dolls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REAL ESTATE: Curtains for the Roxy | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

...indictments for the Negro's murder showed the need for a new federal "criminal statute" to protect civil rights. "The nation will be shocked at the State of Mississippi's refusal to act," said he, when the U.S. presents its case before a federal grand jury in Biloxi next month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVIL RIGHTS: To the Roots | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...kidnaping law had not been violated. Determined to defer no more to Mississippi's judicial machinery, the U.S. fell back on the only remaining federal weapon, two seldom used sections (241 and 242) of Title 18, U.S. Code, indicated that it would ask a federal grand jury in Biloxi for indictments charging the mob with violation of Parker's civil rights and conspiracy to deny his legal rights. The Greenville Delta Democrat-Times called Mississippi-born Judge Dale's bluff better than the fulminating Northern papers: "Nothing could have occurred that would go further to establish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSISSIPPI: On Behalf of Lynch Law | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

JULES I. GILPATRICK JR. Biloxi, Miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 7, 1958 | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

Hookless Future. "I was born in the midst of vast cotton plantations," Mary's story begins, and things "were about as they had been during the days of slavery." Ashton Hall-the Kimbrough place close to the Jefferson Davis house on the Gulf Coast near Biloxi-featured all the regulation black nannies and the beaux whose only weakness was the bottle. A gallant gentleman named Jerome Winston was Mary's fiance. Alas, there came the day when Daddy, old Judge Kimbrough, pronounced the terrible words: "Jerome Winston is not worthy of the love of my little daughter." Before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Uppie's Goddess | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

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