Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Civil rights supporters will stage Saturday a send-off rally for students working in Mississippi with the massive Summer Project of the Congress of Federated Organizations (COFO...
Featured speakers will include Mrs. Fannie-Lou Hamer, a former sharecropper who is running in the Second Congressional District of Mississippi for the seat now held by Rep. Jamie Whitten...
Students going to Mississippi this summer will gather at Western College for Women in Oxford, Ohio, Tuesday, June 16, for a four-day training session...
...University of Michigan and Tuskegee Institute, in a wider collaboration, are reforming Tuskegee's curriculum in biology, chemistry, engineering and veterinary medicine. Last week Rhode Island's prosperous Brown University and Mississippi's Tougaloo College announced the most ambitious "big brother" arrangement...
...Cancer College." The Tougaloo campus, just outside Jackson, is an old Faulknerian plantation dotted with moss-hung oaks. A rundown ante-bellum mansion serves as the administration building. It is the only integrated school in Mississippi; Jackson racists call it "Cancer College." The dean of students, Methodist Minister R. Edwin King, keeps as a souvenir a charred K.K.K. cross-"the handy field model," he jokes-that was set afire this spring on Tougaloo's campus...