Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...adventuresome but much-attacked Delta Ministry, the National Council of Churches' two-year-old experimental instrument of reconciliation between Mississippi's white and Negro people, got a pat on the back and a rap on the knuckles last week from its sponsor. Faced with growing criticism of the project, the council's general board strongly endorsed the Ministry's aims and plans but ordered a study on reorganizing it-in effect conceding that this venture in Christian activism had by no means achieved its goals...
...burden of attack on the Delta Ministry has been that its 27 energetic, aggressive lay and clerical staff members, by ardently siding with Mississippi's Negro poor, tended to set them against other segments of society rather than reconcile the factions. Laudably, the Ministry helped set up preschool training centers under Project Head Start, badgered reluctant state officials to accept federal anti-poverty funds, worked with secular civil rights organizations to register Negro voters. Ministry leaders also actively organized a bitter and so far unsuccessful strike against cotton plantations, and encouraged the dramatic squatters' invasion of the Greenville...
Uncle Toms. Mississippi critics of the Ministry include both white and Negro moderates. N.A.A.C.P. leaders in Mississippi charge that the Ministry has in effect created class warfare among Negroes by constantly accusing middle-class blacks of being "Uncle Toms." Negroes who refuse to support Delta Ministry projects all the way are arbitrarily ostracized...
...main excuse for the magazines, said Garlington, is that writers need a place to publish. For a typical issue, Garlington reported, he has 900 submitted essays, short stories and poems to choose from. In addition, "the Mississippi of mediocrity," as The Sixties' Bly put it, "has deepened lately because the colleges have found literary magazines useful for their prestige," and cheap at the price-as little as $10,000 a year. "The cost is comparatively low in view of athletic budgets," noted Colorado's Carter wryly...
Since the boy from Brooklyn launched his first Korvette in 1948, his company has moved westward to the Mississippi, expanding to 42 stores and 63 supermarkets from Hartford to St. Louis. All this requires a lot of administration, and Ferkauf is much too restless to sit around and tend to the details of the nation's fastest-growing retail chain. Result: though Korvette's sales since 1962 have more than doubled to $720 million, its profits in this year's first fiscal half (ending in January) have dropped 14%, to $7.9 million, and its stock is down...