Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More to Come. The political cost could come high. Maintaining the nononsense, "quasi-judicial" approach he adopted during the first week of hearings, Mississippi Democrat John Stennis, the committee chairman, put searching questions to Dodd and showed little sympathy for his legalistic to-ings and fro-ings, which included an attempt to have Utah Republican Wallace Bennett, the committee's vice chairman, disqualified from further participation in the hearings on grounds that he had prejudged the case...
Lewis' disaffection is plainly a result of S.N.C.C.'s new militancy. He has refused to parrot the black-power line, explaining: "I'm not prepared to give up my personal commitment to nonviolence." He argues that the Mississippi march, which Carmichael tried to dominate, may have done the civil rights cause more harm than good...
...into the most innocuous lyrics (they see Frank Sinatra's Strangers in the Night, for example, as a song about a homosexual pickup), and the Cleans, who would argue that Ray Charles's Let's Go Get Stoned is a call to take part in a Mississippi freedom march. To the Dirties, such songs as Straight Shooter (junkie argot for someone who takes heroin intravenously) and You've Got Me High are, of course, fraught with double entendre. Scanning for hidden meanings, in fact, has become something of an in-group game for many teenagers. Take...
...mere pursuit of civil rights, said the U.S. Supreme Court with unexpected sternness last week, does not give an individual a license to break the law. The ruling came in the case of 29 demonstrators who had been arrested in Mississippi in 1964 (Greenwood v. Willie Peacock et al.), for such offenses as parading without a permit, obstructing traffic and biting a policeman...
Contending that they could not expect fair treatment in Mississippi, the 29 had petitioned for removal of their cases to federal jurisdiction. The court, which has long since demonstrated its sympathy for the civil rights movement, was well aware that such removal has become an important civil rights weapon. More than a thousand similar cases have been removed from local Southern courts to the presumably fairer federal benches. Nonetheless, said Justice Potter Stewart for the majority, until Congress changes the situation, "no federal law confers an absolute right on private citizens-on civil rights advocates, on Negroes, or on anybody...