Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reported [Aug. 27] that "police in Mississippi's Amite County pointedly photographed Negroes waiting to register, menacingly asked them who their nearest white neighbors were." Then you began your Essay with the asinine statement: "Any Negro-literate or illiterate-who fails to vote in future elections will only have his own ignorance or indifference to blame." Need I say more...
...recent years, Mississippi Republicans have elected a Congressman, two state representatives, and a smattering of city officials, and in 1964 the state went 87% for Goldwater. Last week, after a runoff election in Panola County, Attorney William E. Corr Jr., 29, became the first Republican member of the state senate since Reconstruction...
...colonists used Indian trails at first, eventually widened them and straightened them as part of a network of quagmire-pocked coach roads connecting major cities along the East Coast. Not until the late 1850s, when Congress appropriated $550,000 for three wagon roads, did anyone going West from the Mississippi River have anything but trackless prairies to drive on. From then on, road networks spread like spider webs across the U.S. In 1904 the U.S. Office of Road Inquiry took a national highway census that showed 2,000,000 miles of roads, just 250 miles of them paved...
...holdouts are concentrated in the rural black-belt sections of Louisiana, where only a fourth of the state's districts have qualified, and in North Carolina, South Carolina and Mississippi, where roughly a third have complied. Mississippi's Amite County, for example, is 60% Negro. The residents there spurned more than $50,000 in federal cash, voted to raise their school tax to offset the deficit. "The Nigras," insists School Board Attorney J. D. Gordon Sr., "are well satisfied with their schools." Across town, a member of the leaderless Negro community, Baptist Minister M. D. Smith, agrees: "Everyone...
...Mississippi, a $7,000,000 Government-financed program for retraining unemployed poor, mostly Negroes, is being run through an agency organized by a Roman Catholic diocese. In New Mexico, the $1,261,000 appropriated to retrain migrant workers was granted by the Federal Government to an organization set up by the state Council of Churches. In city after U.S. city this summer, churches played a major role in launching Project Head Start, the preschool training program for underprivileged children. In all, more than 100 federal programs are providing vast amounts of Government money to church-related agencies-and uncounted millions...