Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lowenstein, co-founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic party, will lead a discussion on American Politics tomorrow at 8 p.m. in the Winthrop House Tonkens room
...There wasn't any funnel," said Jackson Druggist Gus Saunders. "It was just a dark grey curtain with light on either side." It was a tornado nonetheless. The death-dealing screen flung itself repeatedly last week against populated areas of Mississippi. On Jackson's southwest fringe, sounding "like a thousand jets," the tornado struck at 4:31 p.m., demolishing a crowded shopping center and killing a dozen people. A man and his collie were picked up in their car, turned around, and set down 60 ft. away. A mother and son were decapitated side by side. A Negro...
Vaulting northeast, the twister spun down on the industrial suburb of Flowood, overturning six railroad boxcars, smashing factories and claiming ten lives; one dead worker was left hanging on a fence. At Forkville, Joe Bullock, a Democratic candidate for Congress from Mississippi's Fourth District, was killed when his car was blown off the road. Finally, after a parting punch at Pea Ridge, the twister petered out under the sullen, sultry cumulonimbus that had spawned it. At week's end, with the aroma of pine tar from uprooted trees still heavy in the air, and rescuers still digging...
...front page: "Did you hear about the Negro marine who is serving his country well in Viet Nam? He received a telegram on the battlefield which read: 'We regret to inform you that your mother and father were killed "in action" in Los Angeles.' " When a Mississippi anti-poverty program folded, Ward bade farewell to the "slew-footed, unsoaped ragtag of human flotsam who were roaming Mississippi to create hate and provoke a killing...
They are quite content with things as they are in Mississippi-which does not mean they believe everything they read in their own newspapers. On the contrary, they are considered to be reasonably malleable Mississippians who go along with segregation because that's what the community seems to want. To them, the newspapers are, above all, a highly profitable business venture...