Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Each side was claiming victory, but only by the narrowest of margins; neither advocates nor opponents were confident of success. Leading for the ABM's supporters was Mississippi Democrat John Stennis, a respected Senate leader and military-oriented chairman of its Committee on Armed Services. The opposition leadership, more diffuse, fell to two men as widely esteemed within the Senate as Stennis: Republican John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky and Democrat Philip Hart of Michigan. Senator Edward Kennedy, originally among ABM's most vocal critics, was persuaded to mute his opposition in order not to offend colleagues jealous...
...Dogs. Many of the attacks, including that against Mississippi's WLBT, have risen from a common source: the United Church of Christ, a group long active in civil rights work. The Rev. Everett C. Parker, 56, director of the church's office of communications, has not only won a crucial appeals court ruling that citizens' groups have every right to oppose TV-license renewals, but has helped organize local groups to carry on such fights. Rather than risk being dragged before the FCC or into court, KTAL-TV of Texarkana recently agreed in a private contract with...
...Poussaint's concern is partially based on his experiences while living in East Harlem, New York City and in Jackson, Mississippi in 1965-66 when he served as Southern Field Director of the Medical Committee for Human Rights. Eighteen of his major publications have dealt with the dilemma of the American black...
...voting laws and procedures without the approval of the U.S. Attorney General, and thus placed on the states the burden of proving that local laws were not discriminatory. The effect on voting was spectacular. Almost 600,000 Negroes were added to voter lists in the seven states. In Mississippi, Negro registration increased by more than...
...York City's latest slumlord conviction has an unusual twist. Among the victims: a group of elderly whites in a Bronx apartment building. The landlord: James Meredith, 36, the prominent civil rights figure who was the first known Negro ever to attend the University of Mississippi. The tenants of the building testified that Meredith had cut off vital services in an effort to force them to agree to rent hikes in their rent-controlled apartments. A Bronx criminal-court judge found Meredith guilty on two counts; sentencing date is July 25, when Meredith faces a possible $250 fine...