Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...born in the town of Hattiesburg, Miss., and feel nothing but pride when I say that I attended the University of Mississippi ("Ole Miss")-but I do feel nothing but shame when I say that I was a part of the unfortunate "Ole Miss" riots. I love Mississippi, and I'm proud of its heritage and traditions-the ones that give beauty and enjoyment, the ones that are so much a part of me and of the South. I wish to thank you for having the insight to grant the South a future instead of another condemnation...
Marine Lewis, a Choctaw girl from Mississippi, quit school four years ago at the age of 15 and then just stayed home. "Mostly," she says, "I slept...
Last summer the council put 40 students to work aiding indigent clients in Northern cities, from Philadelphia to San Francisco. Another 60 clerked for volunteer Northern lawyers in the South, notably in Mississippi. Columbia Law Senior Robert Watkins (Harvard '59) is a Boston Negro who had never dreamed of facing "Southern realities," before he went south. Now, after "a tremendous experience" in Mississippi, Watkins is ready for more. "I had a skill - law. I was delighted that it could be used to help my people...
...screening committee has picked 177, rejected 97, put 68 on a waiting list. The council is now looking beyond purely racial problems. At the University of Illinois, it has just held a "conference on bail and indigency" attended by judges, prosecutors, policemen and legal-aid experts. The University of Mississippi sent a student delegation. "We are interested in all constitutional rights of all Americans," explained one Ole Miss student. If the council goes on uniting law students on those grounds, it will be doing quite...
...distinguish themselves from the Beatles, Britain's Rolling Stones have attempted to assume the image of Angry Young Men. "The Stones," their manager proudly explains, "are the group that parents love to hate." They sing Mersey-Mississippi rhythm and blues, backed by a quavering guitar and a chugging harmonica that smacks of cotton-pickin' time down South. With a kind of goggle-eyed conviction. Lead...