Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...buses carrying 100 students from seven area colleges left Boston from the Federal Building last right to join in to SNCC-sponsored demonstration in Washington today. The demonstrators will demand Federal intervention in Alabama and Mississippi...
...hundred sixty-six Harvard faculty and administration members have signed a petition demanding that President Johnson "create a continuing protective force to be dispatched to trouble spots in Alabama and Mississippi and to be on hand as long as necessary...
...primary mission "is to invite sinful men to their Savior and Lord, who shapes a new character and morality. The clergy have neither a divine mandate nor authority nor special competence to articulate particular programs of politico-economic action." Another is Episcopalian John Maury Allin, coadjutor Bishop of Mississippi, who says: "I get the feeling that they meet at the national level, pick a problem, and send a staff of three or four rushing in with proclamations...
Though he rejected the job of U.S. Solicitor General in 1932 (the same year he turned down a judgeship on Massachusetts' highest bench), Frankfurter became such an intimate adviser of Franklin Roosevelt that Mississippi Congressman Daniel McGhee labeled him "the Rasputin of this administration." As F.D.R.'s top talent scout, Frankfurter manned the New Deal ramparts with such protégés as Dean Acheson, Jerome Frank, David Lilienthal, Thomas Corcoran and the ill-fated Alger Hiss. Predictably, they were called "Happy Hot Dogs," from the Latin felix for happy. Then came "the 1939 death of Justice...
...executive committee also decided to initiate a letter-writing campaign in support of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Students throughout the Boston area will be urged to write letters to their congressmen and to politically influential members of their local communities calling for the ouster of the five congressmen from Mississippi...