Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Census Bureau certified Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, Virginia, South Carolina, Alaska and parts of North Carolina as areas that have voter-qualification tests that impede registration and where 50% or more of the voting-age population failed to register or vote in 1964. Federal examiners were to be sent to parts of some of these states with authority to register disenfranchised persons. At week's end 45 examiners, having gone through a three-day training course at Civil Service Commission headquarters, already were on their...
...Justice Department filed suit challenging Mississippi's poll tax as being in violation of the 15th Amendment to the Constitution. This week the department planned to file similar suits against Alabama, Virginia, and Texas...
...Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee will close its three-day fund drive with the showing of "A Dream Deferred," a documentary of the Mississippi civil rights struggle, at 8:30 p.m. Friday at 2 Divinity...
...will retire in 1967; to keep him on campus, some faculty members suggested that Heyns be given a special executive position ranking above the university's six other vice presidents. "I am no disciplinarian," Heyns says, but he once squelched disorderly students, protesting the campus presence of former Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett, by grabbing a microphone and ordering: "All right, cool...
Harvard senior arrested in a demonstration last severely beaten by two in a Mississippi prison Sunday morning...