Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LEXINGTON, Miss. Nov. 8--According to an unofficial count yesterday, only seven of the 32 Independent Negro candidates running for office in Mississippi won election Tuesday...
MOUNT BEULAH, Miss., October 3--Fifty-two law students and 14 lawyers gathered here for a lesson on the Mississippi way of life given by some of the state's most prominent Negro leaders...
...group, which includes eight Harvard law students, is here at the request of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. They will provide legal advice to voters in nine counties where Negro candidates are running...
...auditorium of the Delta Ministry's Mount Beulah headquarters, Mississippi political workers stressed that the students were here only as technical advisers on legal matters. "Remember, you cannot change our world in four days. That's not your job," said James Lewis, of the Lawyer's Constitutional Defense Committee...
Readily conceding that a 30-hour driving course, and perhaps the level of instruction in Mississippi, left much to be desired, McGuire maintained that similar conditions exist in many states. Said McGuire: "I am not condemning or praising, but I am saying that the burden of proof is now on driver education to prove it is effective." The headlong rush to invest millions of dollars in driver-education courses should be halted, he argued, and a small portion of the money spent on further tests to assess their value...