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Silber encouraged Bennett to take a teaching job at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, where he openly advertised his admiration for Martin Luther King and led civil rights teach-ins. He questioned how much some of the students were learning, though, when one counterdemonstrator scrawled a note on his door, GO BACK TO MOSCOW, YOU BIG RADIAL! [sic]. Uncertain about whether he wanted to continue teaching, Bennett in 1969 enrolled in Harvard Law School, meanwhile working as a dorm proctor and tutor. John Carnutte, now an immunologist in California, recalls arriving at Harvard from Dixon, Illinois, accompanied...
There was a wonderful story in the newspapers this month about an 87-year-old black woman in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, named Oseola McCarty. Working all her life as a laundress, never marrying, living very plainly, McCarty managed to save an astounding $150,000. Facing life's end, she has decided to give the money to a scholarship fund for black students to attend the University of Southern Mississippi. Inspired by her example, Hattiesburg business leaders have pitched in an additional $150,000. The first beneficiary of McCarty's largess has "adopted" her, and vows to help the heroine through...
...supporters, however, are trying to turn his dismissal into a blessing in disguise. Last week hundreds of students staged walkouts in Jackson and in such cities as Tupelo and Hattiesburg. About 4,000 supporters cheered and clapped at a pro-prayer rally at the state capitol. The demonstrations have been attended by both blacks and whites -- a rare confluence of sympathies in the South. Members of the religious right hope to turn this popular support for a black educator into a nationwide movement to undo the Supreme Court's declaration that school prayer is unconstitutional. Says Mississippi Governor Kirk Fordice...
Parks, 47, has the salt-and-pepper hair and gentle, distracted manner of a day player in To Kill a Mockingbird. He was born in Hattiesburg, Miss., during the waning days of World War II. His father was the founder of Dick Parks and the White Swan Serenaders, and when not being what his son calls "an avocational musician," he pursued psychiatry as a colleague of Karl Menninger's. Young Van Dyke landed his first professional job with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City in 1951 ("in the boys' choir") and has been doing unexpected things ever since...
Nixon, 57, who sits in Biloxi as chief judge of the Southern District of Mississippi, was accused of accepting lucrative oil and gas royalties in return for helping persuade state authorities to drop marijuana-smuggling charges against his friend's son. The jury in Hattiesburg, where the case was transferred, found the judge innocent of accepting an illegal gift and of one perjury charge, but guilty of lying to a grand jury when he denied having anything to do with the drug case or discussing it with the prosecuting attorney. Nixon faces a maximum ten-year prison sentence...