Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leader Ken Wherry called up the anti-poll tax bill. From his seat under the Senate's big gilt clock, Mississippi's quiet John Stennis picked...
...Davis, New York City's only Negro (and only Communist) councilman; bald John Williamson, the party's labor secretary, out on bail pending a deportation hearing (TIME, Feb. 23) ; stocky Jack Stachel, little known outside the party but one of its veteran propagandists, also tapped for deportation; Mississippi-born Henry Winston, a moonfaced Negro, the C.P.'s organizational secretary...
...front row, Oklahoma's doddering ex-Governor "Alfalfa Bill" Murray beamed his approval, proudly recalled that "I'm the man who introduced Jim Crow in Oklahoma." Race-baiting Gerald L. K. Smith turned up as a spectator under the pseudonym of S. Goodyear. A group of Mississippi students set up a chant: "To hell with Truman...
...triumph, the delegates endorsed a "Declaration of Principles." It condemned "this infamous and iniquitous program [of] equal access to all places of public accommodation for persons of all races, colors, creeds and national origin." Then they nominated South Carolina's Governor J. Strom Thurmond for President and Mississippi's Governor Fielding Wright for Vice President...
...Bolt. Just what they hoped to accomplish-or how they would go about it-no one seemed to know. So far, only Alabama and Mississippi electors were pledged against Harry Truman. Other states might be persuaded to instruct their electors for the Thurmond-Wright ticket. But most office-holding Democrats would think twice before risking their federal and state patronage by aligning themselves with the irregulars. Said Arkansas' Laney pointedly: "Whatever is done must be done through and by the official Democratic organization in each respective state...