Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fists. When some young Negroes began hitting back, the local cops, until then languid spectators, broke it up. "We got to go back," said a shaken King afterward. "This is the meanest town in the country." The marchers did return under heavy police guard, but they also learned that Mississippi had another town to rival Philadelphia for meanness...
...armed state-highway patrolmen, county deputies and local cops assembled near by. "You will not be allowed to pitch those tents," Canton City Attorney Robert Goza told the marchers. The tents rose anyway. "If necessary," preached King, "we're willing to fill up all the jails in Mississippi." The only reply was the clicking of rifle bolts as the cops advanced. Ten yards from the marchers, they halted, donned gas masks. There was a pop, a thud, a flash of orange, then a smoky cloud. Soon, dozens of red, white and blue canisters loaded with tear...
...What Do You Want?" The upshot of the Mississippi march may well be to harden positions on both sides of the black-power quarrel. The militants can be expected to cite the savagery of white Mississippians as proof that Negroes can hardly expect much in the way of help from whites. The moderates can be expected to counter, as Ralph Abernathy, one of King's aides, did recently, with the argument that "if the philosophy of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth is carried to its ultimate conclusion, we are eventually going to have...
Black power is a ringing slogan in the summer of 1966-one that may well see all the counsel of well-meant moderation choked in Mississippi dust...
...year-old group, chaired by Mississippi Democrat John Stennis, started with two days of closed sessions, followed by three days of public hearings. This initial phase of the investigation was restricted to Dodd's relationship with Julius Klein, a Chicago-based public-relations man and lobbyist who has a number of West German industrial and quasi-political accounts. Boyd said that in December 1964, his long-held concern about the Senator's dealings with Klein was sharpened by Dodd's reports of his campaign financing, which he said, concealed the "misappropriation of hundreds of thousands of dollars...