Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...infant-mortality rate for nonwhites was 70% greater than for whites; now it is almost 100% greater-38.8 v. 20.6 per 1,000 live births. In some ghettos, infant-mortality rates exceed 100 per 1,000 live births-approaching the level of a Biblical plague. In Mississippi, the Negro maternal death rate is five times that of whites; 74% of these are, in medical opinion, preventable...
They did, that is, until last week. Then the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the Arkansas law prohibiting public school teaching of "the theory that mankind ascended or descended from a lower order of animals" is clearly unconstitutional. That ruling should put an end to the issue in Mississippi as well...
...civil rights advances in the Deep South, a harsh reality remains in Mississippi courts: white men accused of violent crimes against Negroes are almost never convicted. About the only time such offenders are punished is when they are tried in federal courts under statutes enacted during Reconstruction times. Among those antique laws, several prohibit conspiracy to deprive any citizen of his civil rights, and last week a federal judge in Vicksburg concluded that one of man's most basic civil rights is his right to live. U.S. District Court Judge William Harold Cox, a stubborn segregationist, decided that...
Indeed it may. Though none of the ex-Klansmen has nearly enough money to pay off, nor are they ever likely to, all may be burdened with heavy debt for the rest of their lives. Under Mississippi law, they can be forced to sell real and personal property, and 25% of their salaries can be garnisheed until the award is liquidated...
...Mississippi--A Bing Crosby picture in which W. C. Fields gets to do some schtick. Shown with a Road Runner cartoon at 2 DIVINITY AVE., tonight...