Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will decline," said Leonard, who is chief of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. His reluctance was understandable. Leonard had just become the first Government lawyer ever to ask the high court for a delay in school desegregation. His unaccustomed ally was John C. Satterfield of Mississippi, the most prominent segregationist lawyer in the country...
Truffaut's latest release (not yet seen in the U.S.)- The Siren of Mississippi -retains the loving detachment of his other films. It also signals a kind of return to Jules and Jim. exploring the constantly changing relationship between two people (Jean-Paul Belmondo and Catherine Deneuve). The changes in their relationship are frequent, radical, and usually unpredictable...
...spoke briefly with newsmen at Tan Son Nhut airfield where he was given a resolution passed by the Mississippi Legislature praising American troops in Vietnam for "the sacrifices they have made and are making in behalf of their country...
...RACIAL EQUALITY. The N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund lawyers have asked the court for a prompt ruling on the recent delay in desegregating Mississippi's schools. If the court agrees to hear the case, the result could be an early clash with the Nixon Administration, which took the unprecedented step of requesting the halt. Justice Hugo Black, who supervises the Deep South Fifth Circuit for the high court, has asked the Government to reply to the fund's petition by Oct. 8. Last week Assistant Attorney General Jerris Leonard asserted that a decision to compel desegregation throughout the South...
Illinois, Tennessee, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Texas have fewer black physicians now than 25 years...