Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BLUEBONNET BOWL GAME (ABC, 3:30 p.m. to end). Mississippi plays Tulsa in Houston...
...moving, measured cadence, King told an audience that included King Olav V: "I am mindful that only yesterday in Birmingham, Alabama, our children, crying out for brotherhood, were answered with fire hoses, snarling dogs and even death. I am mindful that only yesterday in Philadelphia, Mississippi, young people seeking to secure the right to vote were brutalized and murdered...
...local Negroes, big-city Northern reporters and a few young civil rights workers-many of whom badly needed haircuts and a fresh change of clothes. The Justice Department lawyer was young (34), crew-cut Robert Owen. At the front of the room sat U.S. Commissioner Esther Carter, a middleaged, Mississippi-born spinster...
...glad to see it. I'm sorry that someone at the CRIMSON felt he had to label this essay "A Segregationist's Viewpoint," though. Rorer definitely does not impress me as a segregationist, in any legitimate sense of the word. Being a white man from Mississippi does not make one a segregationist, nor does differing with COFO aims and methods. He states that most Mississippians believe that segregation is morally right, and that Mississippi is trying to maintain a segregated mode of life. But does he support it in this aspect of its struggle? Does he defend the Mississippians' "civil...
...agree with the viewpoint of John Rorer in his article about the Mississippi Project, but I feel the editors of the CRIMSON might show a little more intelligence if they were to try understanding some of his observations rather than passing the whole article off as "a segregationist's viewpoint," and including that needless disclaimer. It is this very attitude among the liberal northern civil rights workers that is only increasing rather than alleviating the misunderstanding between northerners and southern whites...