Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Missing in Mississippi...
...outraged and disgusted that members of our U.S. Navy are used for the purpose of trying to locate three no-good rabblerousers in the South. Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman went to Mississippi looking for trouble, and if they got it, they deserved...
Barry A. Goldstein '64, who was arrested in Gulfport, Miss. Thursday while registering ten Negro voters, had his case continued until July 24. He had been convicted under a new Mississippi antipicketing law; today a Federal District Court is ruling on a case filed in Hattiesburg testing the law's legality. If it is found unconstitutional, the case against Goldstein will probably crumble...
...good order exclusively to the states, said the law professors. But the argument has been without merit since 1879, when the Supreme Court affirmed the Federal Government's power to command obedience to its laws "on every foot of American soil." Prudence may curb this power in Mississippi, noted Kennedy's critics. But it is "disappointing and ironic that the Department of Justice, which has been bold beyond precedent in successfully urging the Supreme Court that the judiciary possesses the broadest powers to enforce the constitutional assurances of equality, should now discover nonexistent barriers to executive action...
Minnesota's U.S. 61 clings close to the Mississippi River from Minneapolis to New Orleans, spanning swamps and lowlands to hug the shore. Illinois' U.S. 20 crosses the bridge when it comes to it, rolls on past Ulysses Grant's home and Savanna's white pines. Motorists in northern Wisconsin can bid farewell to U.S. 51 near Woodruff and meander along State Highway 70 through country so studded with lakes that the road seems a bridge, and so rich in woods that they spill right up to the road's edge until the turnoff...