Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lynching is lynching, and I am against lynching. It makes no difference whether a white mob lynches a Negro in Mississippi or a black mob lynches a white man in the Congo, whether a Communist mob lynches an "exploiter" in China or a Nationalist mob lynches a "Peking dog" in Indonesia...
...cost and spread the wealth in the U.S., with 200 more in the planning stage. "We can do things together that we can't do alone," says President Donald Kleckner of Elmhurst College, near Chicago, which is joining seven other small Midwestern schools next year to form the Mississippi Valley Association. "Many colleges are deciding that they can gain more by cooperation than by competition...
Like many another U.S. college campus, Mississippi State University in Starkville has long had its own private parking regulations. The school's uniformed patrolmen, in the manner of state or city cops, ticketed violators, who then paid their fines to university authorities. Not any longer. Thanks to a student-inspired lawsuit that went all the way to a federal district court, the only way that illegal parkers can now be prosecuted is through regularly constituted courts...
...student scofflaws, the Mississippi State concession represents a golden opportunity to challenge similar parking regulations that exist at other campuses. They may, however, be inhibited by the Pyrrhic outcome of the decision. Illegal parkers will henceforth be tried before local justices of the peace, whose minimum fine for tickets is $12, rather than the $2 previously imposed by university regulations...
This Property Is Condemned begins and ends with excerpts from a fragile one-act play by Tennessee Williams. Its heroine, a waif named Willie, picks her way along the railroad tracks in a desolate Mississippi town, carrying "a banged-up doll and a piece of a rotten banana." Brazenly recounting her hardships to a neighborhood lad, Willie on screen (Mary Badham, the perky tomboy of To Kill a Mockingbird) is still affecting as she sashays through a world of half-truths and childish fantasy in her dead sister Alva's tattered finery...