Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the poor must play a decisive part in planning and bringing about their own salvation, a concept that has caused conflict with city politicians and confusion in Congress. At last week's conference were delegations from urban and rural slums, from Watts and Harlem, Appalachia and the Mississippi Delta...
...committee meetings the poor talked of "organizing against the political and economic structure" that has denied them control over anti-poverty expenditures. There was talk of "political assassination" to oust officeholders accused of "keeping us down." Mrs. Unita Blackwell of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party declared: "The Federal Government ought to be ashamed of itself. The same men who pay us $3 a day and are bent on putting people off the land-that's the men who are on the poverty committee. You just come up with the resources, and we'll show you what...
Federal pressure and Southern conscience are certainly having their effect. The great white wall of segregated Southern justice is finally being breached, as illustrated by some scattered but significant recent events: the nearly unprecedented life sentence for a white youth who raped a Negro girl in Mississippi; eleven Negroes serving on a jury trying the Negro killers of a white policeman in Georgia. Yet the South has a long way to go before Negroes will have gained "equal justice under...
...Negro defendants hire Negro lawyers? One reason is that there are so few in the South. Of some 21,000 lawyers in Mississippi, only five are Negroes. Even relatively enlightened North Carolina has only 125 Negro lawyers in a Negro population of 1,500,000. The Negro lawyer is barred from judgeships, professorships, political appointments, big corporate firms and affluent clients. Even injured Negroes usually prefer white lawyers because they get more money from white juries. As a result, most important rights cases are directed by non-Southern lawyers, who for all their frequent zeal and skill, are often unfamiliar...
...face a major hurdle: Southern federal district judges. Many are scrupulously fair, notably Alabama's Frank Johnson, an Eisenhower appointee, and Florida's Bryan Simpson, a Truman appointee. But others are deeply segregationist, a problem largely attributable to the Kennedy Administration, which surprisingly named such men as Mississippi's William H. Cox, who once described the Negroes involved in a case before him as nothing but a bunch of "chimpanzees" who "ought to be in the movies rather than being registered to vote...