Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they ranged from Maryland's Democratic Senator Joe Tydings, stepson of the late Millard Tydings, to California's Representative John Tunney, son of the former heavyweight champion. Many were symbols of political upheaval: a Democratic Congressman from Maine who won by 40,000 votes, a Republican from Mississippi who won by nearly 7,000, and a Democrat from New York's suburban Westchester County, the first of his party elected there in over 50 years. There were 20 Roman Catholics, 63 Protestants, six Jews and ten who professed no denomination among the 99 newcomers to the 89th...
...movement has now shifted its objectives from the integration of public facilities to the more basic problems of voting, education, and job opportunities. In carrying out the extremely successful Mississippi Project last summer, COFO concentrated on voter registration and freedom schools and did not integrate a single lunch-counter or hotel. This shift comes from a growing realization that winning the right to buy a hamburger in a white lunch-counter is a dead-end, and is meaningless for Negroes who do not have the money to pay for one anyway. Only when Negroes can vote, or exercise power...
There are signs that King may be adopting some of the new policies that are aimed at basically changing the control of power in the South. Recently he supported the seating of the three Freedom Democratic Party Congresswomen in place of the five regular Mississippi representatives, although several other liberal organizations, including the NAACP, refused to back the seating attempt...
...henchman of King's spoke recently at a rally composed largely of more militant Negroes. When he had finished, one of the audience strode to the podium and shook a fist in his face. "You Tom. All you want to do is make Mississippi like North Carolina!" "What the Hell do you mean--"the speaker shouted back. And then he stopped. He knew the man was right. That's exactly what he wanted...
...wanted to make Mississippi like North Carolina and North Carolina like New York and New York like the New Jerusalem. How long? asks the militant, almost glancing at his watch. How long...