Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 Twain's Mississippi...
...violence. Much of the Klan's terrorism is handled by goon squads with such picturesque names as "The Holy Terrors" and "The Secret Six." Such groups were held responsible for the mutilation and murder of three civil rights workers who were found in an earthen dam in Mississippi last June, for the killing of Washington, D.C., Educator Lemuel Penn in Georgia last July, and for the death of Mrs. Viola Liuzzo in Selma last month...
...amendment to bring under the measure Southern states currently unaffected by it. Since the bill, as proposed, applies only to areas where less than half the adult populace was registered or voted last November, and where voter-qualification tests were required, it now affects only seven Southern states-Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana, Virginia, South Carolina, and 34 counties in North Carolina. Outside the net are such states as Lyndon Johnson's Texas, Florida, Tennessee and Arkansas, which impose no tests-but which harbor one-fourth of the South's unregistered Negroes. Civil rights leaders charge that "pockets...
PETE SEEGER: I CAN SEE A NEW DAY (Columbia). Everyone seems to take his new songs to Pete. Fred Hellerman, for example, handed him his new, gospel-like prayer for Mississippi (Healing River) just before Seeger flew down there last summer. Pete also sings some traditional ballads (Follow the Drinkin' Gourd) and his own haunting Bells of Rliymney...
...Your recent reporting of civil rights events in Mississippi and Alabama was superb. Your remarkable example of responsible and dynamic journalism is pricking the conscience of America...