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...mood of the Mississippi Negroes. Ellen Lake '66, who worked on community organization and voter registration in Gulfport, told of organizing "block captains" there to lead integration, in opposition to more conservative factions like the Negro ministry. She said that the withholding of official COFO support from a bus boycott that Gulfport Negroes were planning only increased their determination to carry it out; and she commented that such independence and initiative was a sign that within Mississippi there is the potential for leading the nation...
...squeals of delight from teenage girls often sounded as if it were The Beatles and not the President who had arrived in town. The mobs greeting the Presidential plane were so enthusiastic that they were often satisfied merely to shake the hand of the driver of the press bus--as long as it was someone "with" the President...
From the Depository, Oswald moved on foot, by bus and taxi cab back to his rooming house, changed to a grey zippered jacket, picked up his mailorder Smith & Wesson .38-cal. revolver and left about 1 p.m. Says the Commission: "Oswald was next seen about nine-tenths of a mile away at the southeast corner of 10th Street and Patton Avenue, moments before the [Officer J. D.] Tippit shooting...
Back of the Bus. Mingus is an angry man, sensitive about his color, and the fact that his skin is "high yellow" only makes him more intense about being a Negro. He broods, he gulps red wine by the gallon, he brawls in bars. He has been twice divorced, three times married, has fathered six children. His present wife, Judy Starkey, is white. Perpetually bitter, usually unkempt, he rants against racial discrimination and society in general. "Don't call me a jazz musician. The word jazz means nigger, discrimination, second-class citizenship, the back-of-the-bus...
Friday afternoon the administration makes public what the MFDP immediately christens the "Back-of-the-Bus" Proposal: 1) seating as voting delegates those members of the traditional party who promise to support the national ticket; 2) seating the Freedom delegates as "honored guests...