Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beautiful strangers are expected to take control of situations like this. Sophia's presence disconcerts the mother, excites Sam and the grandmother to curiosity, and enraptures George. He senses a kindred spirit. When he hears that her younger brother is organizing theatres in Mississippi, he runs away from home and heads down South to prove himself...
What angered Gremillion was a ruling by the court last week that upheld the crucial provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Six Southern states-Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Virginia-had demanded that the court declare unconstitutional the law's "triggering device," which prohibits literacy tests in blatantly discriminatory Southern states and authorizes entry of federal registrars to sign up new voters. In refusing to do so, Chief Justice Earl Warren ruled that these "stringent remedies" were "a valid means for carrying out the commands of the 15th Amendment," which empowers Congress to take "appropriate...
...that has produced results far short of their expectations-with the possible exception of Alabama (see below). Where they had hoped that 1,000,000 new Negro voters would be on the rolls in time for the 1966 elections-the bulk of them in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina-the actual number signed up in those five states since the voting act became effective last Aug. 6 is closer to 303,000. The total now registered in the five states is 982,336, only 40.9% of the 2,402,000 potential Negro voters. Even so, there...
...SEGREGATED FACULTIES. Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina have only token integration, while teaching staffs in Louisiana and Mississippi are completely segregated. Howe suggested that Southern school officials might assign one white teacher to every all-Negro faculty and vice versa-or risk losing federal...
Kennedy's vote base should give him solid leads in primaries north of the Potomac and the Ohio and east of the Mississippi. He will win almost no delegates from the South, but he is likely to carry the big-city delegations. Humphrey has recently taken to courting New York and Philadelphia Democratic machines, but it is unlikely that their present defeat-prone leaders will be around in 1972. In any case, city bosses will be inclined to support the candidate more likely to do well in their bailiwicks, and they will not fall to notice that Kennedy will...