Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This lifts a great burden off my shoulders," sighed Long, 59, after Mississippi Democrat John Stennis, chairman of the committee, delivered the unanimous report on the Senate floor. "I am grateful to this committee." Replied Stennis: "We didn't give you anything-only the facts...
McGuire based his claim on a federally supported research project carried out while he was on the medical faculty at the University of Mississippi. He started with two evenly matched groups of 145 drivers; one group learned to drive through driver-education courses; the other had no formal driving instruction. The study showed that after two years the driving-school group had 75 accidents involving 56 persons, while the "uneducated" group had 71 accidents involving 58 people-a virtual draw. A noncontrolled study, comparing 34 drivers who had taken courses with 466 who had not, revealed that the driver-education...
...Harvard law students leave today for a week in Mississippi to help local Negro politicians in their campaigns...
After a one-day indoctrination session, the 62 student will disperse and work in a number of counties where Negro candidates stand a good chance of winning, a spokesman for LSCRRC explained. The largest contingent will go to Holmes Country, said to be a stronghold of the Mississippi Free Democratic Party (MFDP), the party which challenged the allwhite delegation to the 1964 Democratic Convention...
Project director Ronald Pollock, a New York University law student, admitted that "the project won't have any great impact on Mississippi, but it will on the people who go down there." Most are first-year law students, who, said Pollock, would be likely to commit more time to such work in the future...