Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said the recent conspiracy convictions stemming from the slaying of three civil rights workers in Mississippi were part of this continuing revolution...
...California and Iowa (41-8, 56-6), but in between was sorely embarrassed by a 28-21 upset at the hands of Purdue's unranked Boilermakers. Alabama was lucky to emerge with a 37-37 tie against equally unranked Florida State, before getting up steam against little Southern Mississippi and Ole Miss. Michigan State suffered the humiliation of a decade, losing 37-7 to a surprising Houston team that everybody had overlooked, lost again to U.S.C. before finally posting a win over Wisconsin. Texas? Defeated by both U.S.C. and Texas Tech before venting its frustration on Oklahoma State. Miami...
Even when it decides not to decide, the Supreme Court decides a great deal. So it was last week when the court chose not to review a desegregation decision appealed by Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas; the effect will be that all six states must comply with a federal court of appeals order directing an immediate speedup in the integration of all public schools. The court also refused to interfere with Pennsylvania's practice of transporting students to parochial schools, thus leaving for another day further practical definition of the line between church and state. Jimmy Hoffa...
Republican Rubel Phillips, 42, who ran unsuccessfully in 1 963 as a segregationist, opened his gubernatorial campaign by pleading for a truce in Mississippi's racial war. "Trying to keep something from happening has absorbed so much of our total energies for all these years that we haven't had much left to devote to the really important task of developing our state," declared Phillips. "It is painfully clear that the race issue has retarded the development of our human resources. The white cannot keep the Negro down without paying the awesome penalty of restricting his own development...
Before his shift, Phillips offered little opposition to Democratic Candidate John Bell Williams, 48, a racist Congressman who has pledged to deliver Mississippi's electoral votes to George Wallace. His new stance, Phillips hopes, could turn the trick in the Nov. 7 election by capturing the state's 185,000 Negro votes, along with those of whites eager for progress. Said one Mississippi Negro civil rights leader last week: "Don't be too surprised if we come out for Phillips...