Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...during Alabama's five-day registration period, an attempt to integrate Tuskegee's white churches, a tear-gassing incident in Marengo and the arrest of a civil-rights leader on embezzlement charges in Selma. A long feature described a sharecropper's strike organized by a "Freedom Labor Union" in Mississippi...
...thorniest item, however, is one that is not in the Senate bill-a House-approved ban of the poll tax for state and local elections in Alabama, Mississippi, Virginia and Texas. Although such a ban was strongly urged by Teddy and Bobby Kennedy, the Senate rejected it. Under pressure from House liberals, Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, floor manager for the bill, supported the ban, though it caused him some embarrassment. Back in 1961, Celler opposed eliminating the poll tax by statute, proposed doing so by constitutional amendment instead. Last week Louisiana Democrat Joe D. Waggonner Jr. suggested that Celler...
...Denver, appeared on television to put the question in another perspective. As far as the N.A.A.C.P. is concerned, he said, "we think we have enough Viet Nam in Alabama to occupy our attention. I do feel that when you mix the question of Viet Nam into the question of Mississippi and Alabama and getting the registration and vote and employment and all the things the American Negroes want in this country, you sort of confuse the issue." Later, Wilkins expanded on his theme: "I don't believe civil rights groups have enough information on Viet Nam, or on foreign...
This summer, however, midshipmen from Harvard and most other colleges east of the Mississippi will be assigned cruise ships to the Second Fleet, which operates off the Atlantic Coast...
...ministry's efforts to build up the Negro community include other projects that stir up less heat-and have sometimes been set up with the blessing of Mississippi whites. Operating on an annual budget of $260,000, about one-fifth provided by the World Council of Churches, the ministry's nine full-time employees have organized relief, health and educational programs in several Mississippi towns, including a civil rights training center in Edwards, and is helping to set up preschool programs for poor children in four communities under Project Head Start (see EDUCATION...