Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Federal judges in Georgia and Mississippi had refused to allow conspiracy prosecutions to go forward in murder cases unresolved by local authorities. Thus, if Johnson's reasoning in allowing the Justice Department to prosecute is upheld-the Supreme Court is still considering the general principle-it will mean great strides ahead for Southern justice...
...trouble is restrictive registration. Most states have lengthy residence requirements before an otherwis eligible voter can cast his ballot in a national election-Mississippi being the worst, with two years. Many states also require unreasonably early registration; in Texas, it is necessary to pay a poll tax by Feb. 1, if one wants to be able to vote in November. Almost everywhere the voter is caught in a vortex of filling in forms and signing registration books. Many of these practices stem from a time when American communities were isolated; in mobile America, the system is clearly outdated. An estimated...
...student volunteers will help to register Negroes in those areas of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, and South Carolina in which federal registrars are already working...
...plans no separate project of its own. Instead, it will place its volunteers in the already established voter registration projects of the Congress of Racial Equality, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
Williams wrote a play about people who inhabit the past and the present, and those who inhabit no time at all. There is Amanda Wingfield, a faded Mississippi belle stranded in the slums of St. Louis who is trying desperately to recapture the dead world of the Delta; Jim O'Connor, the gentleman caller, an engaging boor who represents the present Amanda is avoiding; Tom, Amanda's son, torn between love for his mother and sister and the desire to escape into the living world around him; and Laura, Amanda's daughter, a shy and delicately beautiful cripple...