Word: colemans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Segregationist by creed but able lawyer by profession, Mississippi's Governor James Plemon Coleman is no man to fool around with racist lawlessness. Last month, when a bunch of masked toughs broke into a jail at Poplarville (pop. 2,500) to abduct and kill an accused Negro rapist named Mack Charles Parker, Governor Coleman acted swiftly and sensibly: he asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation to enter the case. From that point on, event followed event with the predictability of a Pearl White flicker...
...telephoned the town marshal, who called Sheriff W. Osborne Moody. Quickly Moody called his deputies, alerted the highway patrol, the city police. Soon a huge posse fanned out from Poplarville into the countryside of heavy woods crisscrossed with streams. Within a few hours, Mississippi's Governor James P. Coleman called...
Proud of his record of law and order, Coleman declared fervently that he "never expected to see the day" when there would be mob action in Mississippi. It was, said he, "the first such incident in 20 years...
...introduction to the catalogue, Historian Charles Coleman Sellers notes that Peale's paintings "are of our own time more truly than of his. They have a peculiarly modern appeal in their very personal motivation and in their use of realism as an escape from reality. That other painters regarded [still life] as fit only for school work or amateurs may have encouraged him to take it as his own, to develop it with his wonderful virtuosity and to find in it a little province of personal supremacy, of surprises and satisfactions, of no money value but of solace...
...ballot, period." Kennedy has New Eng land's loo-plus delegate votes virtually sewed up, stands well in a dozen Mid western and Western states and has sur prising strength in the South. "Kennedy is sober and temperate on civil rights." says Mississippi's Governor J. P. Coleman. "He's no hell raiser or Barnburner." Kennedy came out of nowhere in 1956 with a breathless, near-successful try. with heavy Southern support, at plucking the vice-presidential nomination out of Estes Kefauver's shaken hands. A few months later, after Dwight Eisenhower's election, Kennedy...