Word: bootheel
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...Missouri Weekly polled the state's Bootheel section, Kennedy wound up with 72%, Lyndon 26%, Hubert 2%-though only a few years ago, in the newspaper's words, Bobby was "perhaps the most disliked American in the Bootheel, outside of the FBI's ten most wanted criminals...
...special schools for handicapped children. White and Negro pupils arrived in the same buses, started the year, without incident. "Similar experiences," said the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "are occurring throughout Missouri ... In Little Dixie [central Missouri], 52 Negroes enrolled for high school at Fulton. In the heart of the Bootheel cotton country, 20 attended classes at formerly white schools in Sikeston . . . Time is running out on race discrimination in this America. Missouri at least can tell time a little better than some states...