Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rice-mill worker in segregationist Lake Charles, La. The family spoke French at home, and although the parents never got to high school, all six children attended college; one brother became a surgeon, two of them dentists. Harold Perry entered St. Augustine's Divine Word Seminary in Mississippi at 13, was ordained in 1944, and spent 14 years as a parish priest. Appointed rector of the seminary in 1958, he worked for better race relations, caught the eye of Archbishop John P. Cody, Rummel's successor in New Orleans and now archbishop of Chicago. Cody last week joined...
...good newspaperman. He keeps on speaking terms with both warring factions, and it's his style that lets him straddle the fence. Carter's heart is with the civil-rights worker, but, at the same time, the man is Old South, through and through. Each half of Mississippi resents his other self...
...soaks it all in, none of the usual Mississippi cotton bolls stuffing his ears, hashes it through in his Princeton-cultivated mind, and bangs out his conclusions on the typewriter. Cambridge may complain that it's not the 100 per cent SNCC line, but if it were, he wouldn't be a journalist...
Mark DeWolfe Howe '28, professor of Law, is fighting to reverse a $60,000 libel decision against the staff of a small civil rights newsletter in Mississippi...
...decision was handed down by an Ashland, Miss. judge Aug. 12. Howe said Monday that an appeal will soon be heard by the Mississippi Supreme Court and, if lost there, will be carried to the U.S. Supreme Court...