Word: mississippi
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That county's 12,600 Negroes comprise two-thirds of its population, but not a single one is registered to vote. Since Hood, a balding man with a dark scowl, became registrar in 1960, only 16 Negroes have even bothered to try. As elsewhere in Mississippi, the most effective block to Negro registration is a state law requiring that any prospective voter read and interpret to the satisfaction of registrars one of the 286 sections of the state constitution. It is the registrar, of course, who picks the section for the test...
Section 8 of the constitution, for example, provides simply that "all persons, resident in this state, citizens of the United States, are hereby declared citizens of the state of Mississippi." It is highly favored by registrars in testing white applicants...
Taking the Cue. As Registrar Hood appeared last week, Harvard Law School Dean Erwin Griswold, a member of the commission, leaned toward him and said: "I hand you a copy of Section 182 of the Mississippi state constitution. For the benefit of the commission, would you give us a reasonable interpretation of it?" Hood read silently, then said, "Well, it means that the power to tax corporations and their property . . ." Interrupted Griswold: "I didn't ask you to read it-I asked you to interpret...
...after 26 years in education. Son of an Acme, N.C., factory fireman, he worked at railroad jobs to finance his chemistry and French studies at Richmond's Virginia Union University. He later earned a master's degree in psychology at the University of Michigan. He taught at Mississippi's Tougaloo College and for 13 years at Leland College in Baker, La., becoming its president. When he first saw Selma U., Owens recalls, "I looked, turned around and left." Then, after deciding that the president's job would be "a real challenge -and I have been foolish...
...Episcopal Church last year sent one of the largest contingents of clergy and laymen-51 in all-to work on civil rights projects such as the National Council of Churches' Mississippi Delta Ministry. But in December, at a meeting of the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church, Southerners pushed through a resolution that would give any bishop the right to ban out-of-state clergy from coming into his diocese to take part in activities financed by the church's $100,000 civil rights fund. Last week, meeting in Greenwich, Conn., the 42-member council reversed the ruling...