Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conferees scheduled yet another meeting for this week, the District of Columbia government, the Agency for International Development and the Office of Economic Opportunity -technically dollarless since Oct. : struggled to meet payrolls and maintain normal operations. The first casualties were five OEO community-action programs in Florida, Georgia and Mississippi that were forced to close down last week. Thirty others may soon follow...
Common Cruelty. What Willie belongs to is the dark, doom-laden Mississippi Delta and the town where he grew up-Yazoo (accent on the second syllable) City. He is adept at conveying the violence that simmers beneath the surface courtliness of the Deep South and often erupts in cruelty to Negroes -a cruelty, he admits, that he shared. At twelve, he pounced on a three-year-old Negro toddler for no good reason and beat him up. "My heart was beating furiously," he recalls, "in terror and a curious pleasure." Until he knew better, he thought only Negro women enjoyed...
...results of this election were considered to be disappointing for Mississippi Negroes. Only two out of ten candidates won office in Holmes County, considered the best organized...
...Hinds County, said that many Negro voters did not go to the polls because they believed all black candidates had been taken off the ballots. Sixteen of the original 48 Independent candidates were taken off the ballot for voting in the Democratic Primary last August. In the State of Mississippi Independents are prohibited from voting in party primaries...
...election is seen not only as a defeat for Negroes and the MFDP, but also as a victory for NAACP leader Charles Evers, who has been described as Mississippi's "Tammany boss...