Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Orleans, America's most hedonistic city, the humid air last week was laden with the stench of death, the streets overlaid by a fetid crust of mud. Day after day, as the floodwaters seeped back into the Mississippi, armed police and health crews pursued the macabre task of recovering human bodies and countless animal carcasses. They shot hundreds of snakes-and two alligators -that had been swept up from the swamps and dumped into the city by Hurricane Betsy. Dozens of citizens had been bitten by stray dogs crazed by hunger and salt water...
...wake of last year's devastating earthquake. "Six people died," said Teller, "but the figure could have been hundreds." In fact, New Orleans officials had expected flooding from Lake Pontchartrain to the north, whereas it was a 14-ft. wall of water sweeping up the canal and the Mississippi from south and east that actually inundated the city...
...Rejected, by a 228-to-143 vote in the House, a petition from the predominantly Negro Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenging the seating of five white Mississippi Congressmen on the grounds that 1) Freedom Democrats had not been allowed to enter candidates, and 2) most Mississippi Negroes could not vote in 1964. After two days of closed-door hearings, the House Administration Committee recommended that in future the House should "carefully scrutinize" elections for evidence of racial discrimination...
...reminded his colleagues of President Johnson's pronouncement that the U.S. farm program should be directed "to the small farmer who needs help most." Some corporate farms harvest "as high as $11 million a year from the Government," Williams said. "And I notice from the list that the Mississippi State Penitentiary gets over $175,000. I wonder how any state penitentiary could be described as a small farmer...
With predictably oblique logic, Patterson "argued that Mississippi's laws "do not violate anyone's rights under the 15th Amendment, which the Voting Rights Act is predicated and bottomed on " But what of the U.S. doctrine that federal law supersedes state law? US Supreme Court has held many times," said Patterson, "that there is no such thing as a federal elector. The only electors are those qualified in the individual states. We realize Congress has the right to protect individuals under the 15th Amendment. But we don't concede it the right to write the election laws...