Word: derian
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Patricia M. Derian, Democratic National Committeewoman from Mississippi, told a Kennedy Institute seminar on Southern Politics that the battle between Loyalists and Regulars for control of the Mississippi Democratic party "is at a standstill...
During the 1960s, most white Mississippi liberals were united only by their silence. To be sure, there were some "festering sores of liberalism," as one orator noted: Hodding Carter and Hodding Carter III, Patricia Derian, Kenneth Dean, Hazel Brannon Smith, James Silver, to name a few. But most whites who opposed Mississippi's state of madness were silenced by their fear of social and economic pressure and the very real threat of violence at the hands of racist monomaniacs...