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...young people flooded the state in the summer of 1964, and Mississippi??€™s problems became national news. The country was introduced to a state where only 5 percent of voting age blacks were registered, and this 5 percent faced extreme harassment when they sought to exercise their right. By focusing on one of the most bigoted and brutal states in America, student activists shocked the country into paying attention. They used Mississippi to illustrate the worst that racism was capable of. What our parents did in Mississippi, we can do in the suburbs and rural areas where...
...book also explores Mississippi??€™s Freedom Summer, the 1964 campaign to enfranchise black voters, from the perspectives of both black leaders and white volunteers. Cantor says that as far as he knows, his description is true...
...Friday, in the round of 32, Chu was up against Mississippi??€™s Alex Hartman, seeded No. 13 in the main draw. After losing a tight first set 7-5, Chu ran through Hartman 6-3 in the second...
...smear campaign against Pickering began with attacks on a three-page law review article he wrote in 1959 (at the ripe age of 21), in which he suggested a way to strengthen Mississippi??€™s law against interracial marriages. Never mind that shortly thereafter, in the early 1960s, he prosecuted a popular Ku Klux Klan leader and lost re-election because of it. Apparently all that matters is the few hundred words he wrote over 40 years ago. (Advice for Harvard law students: avoid writing, lest someone clobber you over the head with your juvenescent opinions a generation from...