Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tucked beneath the bluffs along the Mississippi on its Illinois shore, East St. Louis (pop. 80,000) is a squalid reach of crumbling brick buildings, battered frame shacks and sleazy taverns, redeemed only by a view of St. Louis' soaring Gateway Arch across the river. Poverty workers estimate that an appalling 65% of East St. Louis' housing is substandard; a full 21% of the work force is unemployed; nearly a third of the city's families-55%-60% of them Negroes-are on some form of relief. Fine kindling for riot, and last week Firebrand...
...Louis' WIL, which may be the oldest commercial radio station west of the Mississippi, is scheduled to switch this week to all news. So doing, it joins a string of half a dozen other broadcasters who have decided to give up music, sunrise chitchat and daytime lady talk for news, news, news...
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...This year again," mused James Peden, University of Mississippi law student, "they chose the past. The past covers Mississippi like a shroud." The past, in this case, was personified by John Bell Williams, 48, who last week won the Democratic primary runoff, thus virtually assuring his election in November as Mississippi's next Governor. By 362,300 votes to 304,200, Williams, a 21 -year congressional veteran and arch-segregationist who was stripped of his House seniority by Democrats for supporting Barry Goldwater in 1964, defeated State Treasurer Wil liam Winter, a racial moderate backed by Mississippi...
Come November, Mississippi's Negroes may have even less inclination to go to the polls. For their choice then will be between Williams and Republican Rubel Phillips, a Jackson attorney who is as outspoken a segregationist as his opponent...