Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pesticides to blame? The Public Health Service said they were when 5,000,000 fish died last fall in the Mississippi Delta. After a hurried investigation and an analysis of the remains of ten dead catfish, PHS blamed the entire slaughter on endrin, an insecticide used on cotton and sugar cane in the farms around the lower reaches of the river. No significant amount of endrin was found in the water where the fish died, reported Cincinnati's Dr. Donald Mount. But in the blood of the dead catfish, he said, enough endrin was found to be fatal...
...year-old Mississippian newly arrived in New York and identified by police only as "Larry," was simply trying to help Weiner by scaring away the gang. Later Lar ry said bitterly: "I'm scared of my life up here in New York. It's safer in Mississippi." In any event, his ruse worked and the gang fled. A dozen of them were arrested afterward and charged with crimes ranging from malicious mis chief to assault and robbery...
Expensive Experience. Desperately, the Hazleton Chamber of Commerce worked to keep the community alive. When a local silk plant announced that it would move to cheaper labor markets in Mississippi, 70 Hazleton businessmen signed mortgages totaling $50,000 to keep the factory in town. Within three years the plant moved South anyway-putting 2,000 people out of work. Refusing to give up, the chamber formed the Hazleton Industrial Development Corporation, raised $650,000 in bonds and contributions its first year, offered to donate $500,000 as a no-strings down payment on a $1,600,000 plant built...
...Fund; its current staff, including three whites, is heavy on ex-law-review editors and Ivy League products. Under a pioneering legal-intern program, the fund is training and will subsidize civil rights lawyers to fill an urgent need: fulltime practice in the South. The entire state of Mississippi, for example, has at present only four Negro lawyers. One promising recruit: Julius L. Chambers, son of an auto mechanic and first Negro to edit the North Carolina Law Review...
...fund aims to tackle tokenism in 80 other school cases. Also under way are training institutes for Southern civil rights lawyers, taught by Northern law professors, plus legal seminars for more Northern lawyers and 2,000 Northern collegians, who will spend this summer trying to register Negro voters in Mississippi. If and when the civil rights bill passes, predicts Greenberg, "massive resistance to its enforcement" will plunge the fund into more litigation than ever...