Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem should be particularly acute this summer, she said, because of the large number of SNCC volunteers who will be working in Mississippi...
Students will be employed by Civil Liberties Union and Negro lawyers in most of the states of the Deep South, Birmingham, Mobile, Memphis, Jackson, and Atlanta are among the cities in which the students will clerk. Memphis will be the center for lawyers handling cases in northern Mississippi and Jackson the center for southern Mississippi, Miss Holtzman said...
...Mississippi Legislature continues to forge legal weapons designed to combat restive civil rights forces in general, and the Summer Project of the Conference of Federated Organizations (COFO) in particular...
...schools will be staffed by some of the more than one thousand Northern students expected to join COFO's Summer Project. Other students will work in voter registration campaigns, community centers, and research projects on the social and political structure of Mississippi...
...central argument in the letter is that I have ignored the "alternative" of Federal intervention. I did not ignore the possibility that the President might order troops into Mississippi as a last resort in the event of terrible violence. This is not what Mrs. Zellner and Mrs. Day mean. They mean that I ignored the possibility of Presidential intervention before this violence occurs, "to protect American citizens...who will be conducting themselves in a constitutional manner...