Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than ten years old is not real to today's youth, Goodman continued. Their new history is composed of the Beats, Castro -- "But he got himself mucked up with the senile power structure --", Kennedy -- "martyred too early" -- the Battle of the Steps as documented in the film "Operation Abolition," Mississippi, and Sproul Hall...
Class loyalty is more important to the teenage generation than economic or political principles, Goodman said. Youth is not interested in taking power, "for fear of getting caught in the old rat race," he continued. COFO's work in Mississippi two summers ago demonstrates the spontaneous, non-hierarchical "populist movement" which characterizes today's youth, according to Goodman...
Cynics' Escape. Despite that decision, Maryland retained the God requirement in its 98-year-old constitution, as do six other states (Arkansas, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Texas, North and South Carolina). Maryland, though, was the only state requiring jurors to swear that God holds them "morally accountable," that they will be "rewarded or punished therefor either in this world or the world to come." All this gave cynics an easy escape from jury duty. But it also denied sincere nonbelievers "equal protection of the laws...
...drove across the U.S. with out stopping to rest- twice. He is a part-time poet, playwright and novelist; he is equally versed in poker, tennis, two foreign languages (French, Span ish), and he has mastered the arts of advocacy from the Supreme Court to the police courts of Mississippi. "He is," says one federal judge, "the most dazzling person I have ever met in my entire life...
...back to the birth of the Republic. At one hearing, when the judge could not find one of Amsterdam's citations, an unruffled Amsterdam suggested: "Your Honor, your book must be misbound." It was. In New Orleans last winter, he flipped through the apparently hopeless appeal of a Mississippi Negro accused of possessing whisky, and turned the case into a legal landmark-the first federal court decision extending the Sixth Amendment right to counsel from felony cases to misdemeanors (TIME...