Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard senior and 12 other civil rights workers were arrested yesterday in McComb, Miss. as Mississippi's "Freedom Vote" project began...
...Mississippi: The Closed Society, Silver...
...freedom workers have the blessings and prayers of the Negroes in Mississippi. We will be forever grateful. July 8, 1964 written by an 18 year old girl from Byhalia, Miss
...Chief Marshal McShane, a Kennedy appointee in 1961, the service got a much-decorated (Medal of Honor, 13 citations) New York City detective with all the raw courage and all the Irish zest that was needed to lead his deputies through bullets and tear gas at the University of Mississippi...
Back to St. Louis went the Cardinals, to a tumultuous welcome at the airport, a sellout crowd at Busch Stadium ("Spell that Bush," growled one Yankee)-and the biggest collection of noisemakers and freon horns ever assembled west of the Mississippi. But the Yankees still had to be shown, jumped on five Cardinal pitchers for ten hits and an 8-3 victory. Once again the Series was all even, and now everything-$8,400 for the winners, $5,200 for the losers-was riding on the seventh game...