Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...irrational bigotry displayed by white Mississippians during the freedom march [July 1] is a tragic disgrace to everyone who supports the ideals on which the U.S. was founded. The peals of shock ringing out across this country will soon become the death knell of the white reactionary movement in Mississippi...
House Rules Committee Chairman Smith thus became the first nationally prominent Congressman to lose his seat in the recent wave of redistricting. Next in line to succeed him as committee chairman is Democrat William Colmer of Mississippi, who, if possible, is even more conservative than Smith. Smith's defeat was, nonetheless, a traumatic shock to the House's Southern Democrats, for there is no other leader of his prestige and skill to assume captaincy of the bloc...
...only black death. We of the N.A.A.C.P. will have none of this. We have fought it too long. It is the ranging of race against race on the irrelevant basis of skin color. It is the father of hatred and the mother of violence. It is a reverse Mississippi, a reverse Hitler, a reverse Ku Klux Klan." Martin Luther King announced that he would consider launching a wave of civil-disobedience demonstrations as an alternative to the violent tenets of the black-power movement, but he too warned that black power is "racism in reverse. The use of the phrase...
...wrapped a page of Pascagoula news around the Mobile papers and started selling them in Pascagoula. The new edition, called the Mississippi Press Register, lost nearly $750,000, but the Chronicle lost heavily too. Chronicle President Ralph Nicholson decided to sell out-but not to the immediate competition. Canadian-born Publisher Lord Thomson bought the paper, then turned around and sold it to the Mobile papers for a hefty...
...organization no longer has a friendly working relationship with Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which is opposed to Carmichael's philosophy and irritated by his financial fecklessness. Though S.N.C.C., King's group and the Congress of Racial Equality were supposed to share the Mississippi march expenses (more than $25,000), King wound up holding the bill, and has let it be known that his organization will henceforth work alone in Mississippi...