Word: mississippi
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BLACK JOURNAL. Included in this month's "black magazine" are stories on the semantics of color, a profile of Negro Film Director Melvin Van Peebles, and a report on the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, which four years ago challenged the all-white delegation to the Democratic National Convention and this year joins a Mississippi coalition of dissidents to renew its appeal...
...tally in his penthouse suite, could have noted in the first several states an extra vote here and there beyond his minimal requirements. Then Florida and Georgia came through with large majorities?evidence that the Reagan movement had collapsed. Maryland delivered 18 out of 26. Four Michiganders deserted Romney. Mississippi's unit rule held for the entire delegation of 20. The undermining of Case's position in New Jersey produced a welcome 18 out of 40. In Pennsylvania, Nixon picked up 22 more...
...sanitation workers' strike in Memphis erupted into one of this year's first race riots. Martin Luther King's murder stirred a second outbreak and a stiff curfew. The steamy city on the Mississippi still seethes in the residue of April's unlearned lessons, and the aloof attitude of Mayor Henry Loeb and other officials hardly helps. This week the Southern Christian Leadership Conference convenes defiantly in the city where its founder was murdered. The S.C.L.C. national convention could bring Memphis to flash point...
...began Tehachapi's "family visiting program," one of the boldest experiments in the history of American penal reform. Some prisons in Europe and Latin America have long allowed their inmates to receive brief "conjugal visits" from wives and girl friends for the purpose of sexual release. In Mississippi, the state penitentiary at Parchman has allowed similar visits for at least fifty years (TIME, Aug. 18, 1967). The California scheme goes much farther. Granted to well-behaved prisoners nearing the end of their terms, the family visits last 42 hours, take place in a former staff residence surrounded...
Lester is good at it. He scornfully caricatures the breakup of the civil rights movement. Thus S.N.C.C. had been getting heads busted and shot in Mississippi since 1961, he says, but it was not until whites came into the state three years later that there was any press attention. Then the stories, he claims, went something like this: "Blop-blop is a blue-eyed blonde from Diamond Junction-on-the-Hudson, N.Y. She is a 20-year-old junior at Radcliffe majoring in Oriental metaphysics and its relationship to the quantum theory when the sun is in Sagittarius. This summer...