Word: mississippi
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Harvard and Radcliffe students malled 750 letters to Congressmen this week, urging them to vote for the unseating of the present Mississippi delegation, Peter H. Weiner '66, president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Young Democrats, said last night. The letter-writing campaign was sponsored by the Young Dems...
Weiner stated that "the Young Dems are not in favor of seating the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, but rather of holding new elections in Mississippi with prior registration under federal registrars...
Weiner added that even if this campaign does not lead to the unseating of the present Mississippi delegation. "We're certain it will succeed in strengthening the Voting Rights Bill which is now before Congress...
Subjugating Others. Harlem-born Bob Moses, 30, is probably the most battle-scarred of all Snickers. In his efforts to register Negro voters in Mississippi, he has been beaten, burned, stabbed and shot at; he is now so hardened to it all that he can take a snooze in a car that is being chased by rednecks. Who is Moses' revolutionary mentor? Marx? Mao Tse-tung? No, it is Albert Camus, who preaches a form of rebellion that never loses sight of individual values. "It's important to recognize in the struggle certain humanitarian values," Moses told Warren...
...tour, Billy will conduct a ten-day crusade in Montgomery in June. During October, he will crusade in Waco and Houston. Striving to accept speaking engagements in parts of the South where he has seldom before preached, he has juggled his schedule to fit in a speech to the Mississippi Baptist Convention. "I want to stay in touch with those fellows," he says...