Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...home voters, have lost much of their ardor for further federal civil rights legislation. Those guiding welfare bills through the House watched helplessly as the inevitable budget cuts took alarmingly large chunks out of their appropriations. Then, in June, the bomb fell. Guided by Congressman Jamie Whitten of Mississippi, the House came within inches of saddling an $18 billion HEW bill with a rider that threatened to return school desegregation efforts to the medieval...
...record of the past four years only tentatively suggests how important the fund-manipulation has been. Since the federal government gained the power to withhold the school grants in 1964, it has used it against only 115 school districts--most of them in Mississippi and Georgia...
...weeks after visiting the Silver Moon, I left for a short swing through Mississippi. My job was routine and harmless; I was simply trying to find places that would sell the Courier. In practice, that meant finding black communities on the back roads, convincing a grocery store or a small black boy to sell the paper, and leaving sample copies to jolly up the local readers. Then I drove...
...side of a Mississippi road the truck pulled up behind me. Three men were riding in the front, three in the back. They all jumped out, and I saw to my horror that they were Klansmen. Uniformed ones. This all seemed a little absurd; what had I really done? At the time, though, the "absurdity" was nudged out by a more persistent thought: I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die. I sat still in the car as they gathered around...
...judge on the Fifth Circuit Court, Thornberry retained his image as a "moderate" largely by contrast with his peers. When Johnson appointed him to the Fifth Circuit, in 1965, he also appointed former Mississippi Governor J.P. Coleman, who drew all the fire from civil rights organizations for being a racist, and for having supported segregationist legislation during his term as Governor. Thornberry, in the shadows then as he has been this year, was quietly accepted...