Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suggests a man who is always ready to extend the reach of the judiciary. In the case of Elbert Parr Tuttle, the description applies dramatically. For six years, Tuttle was chief judge of the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which deals with such "Heart of Dixie" states as Mississippi and Alabama; under him that court has been a vital prod to civil rights...
...days later he ordered the children reinstated immediately. In Americus, Ga., four civil rights workers were indicted on a variety of trumped-up charges; Judge Tuttle went to the town, convened a three-judge court on the spot, and freed the four. It was also Judge Tuttle who rebuffed Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett and told him firmly that the U.S. Supreme Court must be respected. Barnett had made the mistake of asking Tuttle to ignore the court and grant him a jury in a contempt trial that grew out of his role in the University of Mississippi riots...
...Attempts to exaggerate the role of a Negro like Crispus Attucks, who was killed in the Boston Massacre, can be misleading. "He was just a street hoodlum who happened to get in the way of a bullet," says Notre Dame Historian James Silver, an expert on the U.S. South (Mississippi: The Closed Society...
That awareness came through a spontaneous "guilty feeling" when three civil rights workers were murdered in Mississippi in the summer of 1964. Liz "wanted to do something," so she gathered five Wheaton classmates, made weekly trips to Boston's Roxbury neighborhood to tutor Negro children. Liz recruited more student-teachers, created a program that now includes 60 Wheaton girls. She found the work so satisfying that she spent two of her college summers living and working full time in the slums of Hartford...
...Democratic national leadership hopes to avert a replay of the turmoil at Atlantic City in 1964 when insurgent blacks and white civil rights activists, calling themselves the Mississippi Democratic Freedom Party, invaded the convention floor. Nonetheless, the Negroes' success last week may prove short-lived. Segregationists among more than 400 whites dominating the state meeting in July could still bulldoze through an all-white slate of delegates, arguing that Negroes had been duly included in the initial selection process. Evers and other black delegates are preparing for an eventual challenge, joining the Freedom Democrats in what could become another...