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...James Meredith, the first Negro at Ole Miss, has dealt his old adversary Barnett a similar blow by endorsing him: "Leaving out race, the Barnett ticket is the one that will bring the Negro out of political obscurity and into political significance not only in Mississippi, but in the nation." Barnett immediately blasted it as a political trick. Meredith sounds convincingly sincere as he travels through Mississippi, ruining Barnett by saying that none of the candidates offer any real attraction to Negroes, but that Barnett has shown an industrial program that will provide jobs for Negroes...
MOST OF the Courier's readers are rural Negroes in the Black Belt of Alabama and Mississippi (during the Meredith March from Memphis to Jackson last summer, the Courier distributed free copies along the route, received letters asking for reporters and subscriptions, and happily supplied both). Few people want their copies mailed; they prefer to pay a dime each time the six-page full-sized paper is delivered to their doorstep. The Courier buses papers out to dozens of local distributors--housewives, civil rights leaders, retired steelworkers--who mail back the paper's share of the money collected, as well...
Walker's case stemmed from his presence on the University of Mississippi campus during 1962 riots over the admission of Negro James Meredith. During those riots, the Associated Press reported, Walker had "assumed control of the crowd" and "led a charge of students against federal marshals." Alleging that that was tantamount to accusing him of inciting to riot (on which charge a federal grand jury refused to indict him), Walker sued A.P., won a judgment...
Preminger's cast is wild, probably deliberately so. He has Michael Caine playing a somewhat selfmade Southern wheeler-dealer, and Jane Fonda as his wife; Burgess Meredith and Madeline Sherwood portray a small-town judge and his wife; and John Philip Law and Faye Dunaway are a poor (but honest) farmer and his wife. Rounding out the cast, in two unfailingly thankless roles, are Robert Hooks -- also a poor but honest farmer -- and Diahann Carroll, the latter as a local girl gone North and corrupted...
Second Bounce. As far as the April 11 special election for Powell's House seat was concerned, his absence hardly mattered. Even against the well-known James Meredith, he was the prohibitive favorite. Then suddenly last week, Meredith, under intense pressure from Negro leaders, pulled out of the race, and the competition became weaker. Powell's new Republican opponent is Mrs. Lucille Pickett Williams, 50, an attractive grandmother who has no illusions about her chances...