Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...probability is that Negroes will not necessarily support Negro candidates. To attract their votes, many white segregationist politicians have already markedly muted their pronouncements on racial issues. In Mississippi, where the militant Freedom Democratic Party last week entered a slate of integrationist candidates for Congress (five Negroes and one white), N.A.A.C.P. Leader Dr. D. L. Conner allowed that members of his race "would do well to vote for sympathetic whites who are intelligent and fair...
Thus, though Mississippi now has 117,500 new Negro voters, many of them regard the F.D.P. as too radical, and only two of its candidates are given any chance of election. The strongest challengers are Lawrence Guyot, 26, F.D.P. Mississippi chairman, who filed as an opponent against Congressman William Colmer, 76, and the Rev. Edwin King, 30, a white chaplain at predominantly Negro Tougaloo College, who is taking on Representative John Bell Williams...
...nothing so crude as a march on Washington, nothing so trite as a White House picket line. It was a camp-in. And a stroke of publicity genius at that. Some 90 impoverished Negroes from Mississippi's tent cities last week staked out for themselves some of the choicest acreage in the Great Society-the tulip beds of Lafayette Square, just a few steps across Pennsylvania Avenue from Lyndon Johnson's front door and within nailing distance of his bedroom window. "We want," declared Camp Leader Frank Smith, 25, "to let the President see exactly what the housing...
Smith bowed finally to the demand that his group go back to Mississippi and lay the proper groundwork for an agency grant. For, while the capital camp-in smacked of a Gogol comedy, the plight of the Delta Negroes, evicted from their sharecroppers' homes after they struck cotton plantations last year, was indeed tragic-and hardly likely to improve without federal help...
Although a Mississippi murder charge will more than likely be forthcoming in this case, it is clear that the Federal Government needs a strong law to deal with Southern segregationists' violence. In its decision last week, the Supreme Court made it clear that such legislation is not only necessary but welcome. Six of the court's nine justices agreed in principle with Justice Tom Clark that Congress does have the power to "enact laws punishing all conspiracies-with or without state action-that interfere with 14th Amendment rights...