Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thousands packed the Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin shores, and more than 100 small boats followed in pursuit, as three contenders puffed along in the first commercial riverboat race on the upper Mississippi in modern times, a six-mile feature of the Dubuque summer festival. The tug Coal Queen took an early lead, but the Mary soon pulled ahead, leaving the excursion liner Julie N. Dubuque II to finish third. Owner of the Coal Queen was Iowa's poet of the pajama game, Author-Playwright Richard Bissell, 51, a Harvardman you can always tell will go along gamely with whatever...
Mark DeWolfe Howe '28, professor of Law, Tuesday contradicted Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy's recent statement that President Johnson cannot really do anything in Mississippi...
...Even the inadequate legislation we have," Howe said, "gives the President the power to act." He spoke at a rally sponsored by the Summer Civil Rights Coordinating Committee (CRCC) to raise money for the students working on the COFO summer project in Mississippi...
Howe pointed out that the crucial question is not how many federal agents the President sends into Mississippi, or any other state, but whether these agents are responsible. "If local police beat up demonstrators," he said, "they are guilty of a federal crime, and can be arrested on the spot...
Last week, for the first time in history, an FBI agent arrested a white man in Mississippi for interfering with a civil rights demonstration...