Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Barry Goldwater may have been an unrelieved disaster for the National Republican Party, but he put the Mississippi G.O.P. back in business for the first time since Reconstruction. He won an astonishing 87% of the state's vote; at the same time, the only Republican who ran for Congress was elected, and Republican officials are still kicking themselves for not having gone after all five Mississippi seats in the House of Representatives...
When the votes were tallied, even the hopeful Republicans were surprised. They elected a city councilman in Columbus, a total of seven aldermen in four other towns. More important, they elected two mayors-the first ever in Mississippi. In Hattiesburg, Lawyer Paul Grady, 41, who lost a runoff election for mayor as a Democrat in 1961, decided he'd rather switch before fighting again, did much better as a Republican. Though Hattiesburg is the Governor's home town, Grady defeated Democratic Incumbent Claude Pittman Jr. 2,429 to 1,827. In Columbus, another Democrat-turned-Republican, City Councilman...
...spring of 1964 also saw the stirring of a large College response to the civil rights drive. Nearly 50 undergraduates joined the invasion of Mississippi, and many more gave money or worked in the North. The civil rights activism heralded Berkeley and was the introduction to the election campaign...
...cities. University President William C. Friday learned that the bill had been introduced, found that it had cleared both houses in just 19 minutes while he was driving the 30 miles from Chapel Hill to the capitol in Raleigh to protest. Similar bills were rejected by state legislators in Mississippi, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina...
This morning's Record-American asserts that the diaries told of "sex and dope orgies" in Mississippi last summer...