Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the marchers were college students from more than 75 campuses from to California. With them on the six-block-long picket line were civil rights workers, high school students from Mississippi, mothers wheeling baby carriages, and a group of 70 scientists from the Rockefeller Institute...
...GOLD OF THE RIVER SEA, by Charlton Ogburn. His plot has enough vigor and ingenuity to sustain a three-year television serial, but Novelist Ogburn's most memorable achievement is his depiction of the Amazon, an evocation in the tradition of Mark Twain's 'Mississippi...
...National Forest with a blast from a German-made, 20-mm. antitank gun that they had bought from a Culver City firm for $150. And last September, the FBI seized four Russian-army Tokarev semi-automatic rifles that had been shipped to members of the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi...
...Washington D.C. Most are students; many are affiliated with PAX, SDS, M-2-M, American Friends, B.U. Students for Peace, Brandeis Peace Group or the Young Socialist Alliance. Buses and cars are also en route from Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Wisconsin, Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia...
...ORLEANS. To untangle traffic jams in the city's business district, the Louisiana highway department has proposed an elevated six-lane highway that would skirt the historic French Quarter and parallel the Mississippi River. Preservationists claim the highway will not only destroy the area's flourishing tourist trade, but also defeat their hopes of clearing a view of the Mississippi, long obscured by riverside warehouses. Warns Harnett T. Kane, president of the Louisiana Landmark Society: "It is the greatest single danger now confronting historic New Orleans...