Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York lawyer? Well, he was born there and lives there now, but he's about as well-known at Stanford or in Mississippi as in the City. Professor? He only teaches one course a week now, though he taught a few more courses when he was at North Carolina State a few years ago. You can't really call him a politician completely either. He is unique...
Lowenstein, while a professor in 1963 at North Carolina State, was one of the prime movers behind a black Mississippi "mock election" which gave birth to the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP). The election also served as a pilot project for a student movement which was later called the Mississippi Freedom Summer. The publicity which a group of about 50 college volunteers mainly from Yale and Stanford received in their hometown newspapers for their participation in the "mock election" prompted Lowenstein and one or two others to organize the "Freedom Summer" project which sent 600 campus volunteers to Mississippi. Lowenstein...
...five. Widely blanketed by local prohibition laws, the South teems not only with "brown bag" joints, to which the patron brings his own bottle in a paper bag, but also with moonshine distilleries. Yet legal drinking is on the rise throughout the South; the last holdout state, Mississippi, repealed its prohibition law last year...
...have thought of three possible replacements for an incurably failing heart: an animal's heart, another human heart, and a completely artificial heart. The animal heart has been used only once, in a case that illuminated both sides of the surgeon's dilemma. At the University of Mississippi Medical Center, Dr. James D. Hardy had, on three occasions, a patient dying of brain injuries who would have been a suitable donor-but he had no recipient. Twice, when he had potential recipients of a transplant, he had no human donors. One candidate to receive a transplant, who seemed...
...laws against discrimination. Almost singlehanded, Doar pried open the South's voting booths for the Negro by personally prosecuting more than 30 voting-rights cases in federal court, since 1960 has participated in every major civil rights case from the admission of James Meredith into the University of Mississippi to the successful prosecution of Mississippi Ku Klux Klansmen who killed three civil rights workers...