Word: kosciusko
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mississippian been convicted of raping a Negro" [Nov. 19]. On July 27, 1960, in the Circuit Court of Grenada County, Fifth Judicial District, Mississippi, a white male, L. J. Loden, was charged with raping a Negro female. He was indicted, prosecuted by District Attorney Chatwin M. Jackson Jr. of Kosciusko, Miss., and found guilty by an all-white male jury. He is serving a life sentence in the Mississippi State Penitentiary...
...Mississippi Bankers Association President Nat Rogers told the Kosciusko Chamber of Commerce: "We must recognize that we have a problem and come to grips with it. We must obey the law, keep in step with the times, and blend our enthusiasm with realism and honesty...
...writing about. Off for the holidays from the University of Mississippi campus, where he still suffers constant harassment from white students, Meredith last week visited Chicago-and scarcely had he arrived when he learned that several shotgun blasts had been fired at his father's home in Kosciusko, Miss...
...thaw. As he climbed the steps of a classroom building on his third day of classes, a student seated on the steps said hello to him (the student later got punched in the face for his courtesy). In the cafeteria next day, a student from his home town of Kosciusko came over to his table and chatted with him briefly. And in a political science class, a student asked the instructor to tell Meredith that he was welcome to use the student's notes to catch up with the work he had missed because of his late registration...