Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coles returned yesterday from a tour of the South. He hopes that the most recent reports on the poverty in rural areas will exert further pressure on the government to take action. In July, after travelling through Mississippi, he testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Manpower, Employment and Poverty, on the widespread starvation in Mississippi, especially among the sharecroppers...
...Jackson Citizens' Council, a white supremacy group in Mississippi, recently asked the major candidates in the Democratic gubernatorial campaign to explain "why our ideals of states' rights and racial segregation" were not being "featured in this campaign as in the past." A reasonable explanation might be that 195,000 Negroes are now registered to vote, as compared with 29,500 four years...
...strength has quieted the racist appeals common in past campaigns, it is ridiculous to expect that Negro votes will swing this election to a liberal or moderate. For one thing, there is no liberal candidate, and the nearest thing to a moderate is a segregationist who vows to protect Mississippi's rights from Federal encroachment. All seven candidates are declared segregationists...
...Mississippians--as well as Negroes. In fact, the number of newly registered white voters equals the number of newly-registered Negroes. Of the 675,000 expected to vote at the Democratic primary today, less than 30 per cent would be Negroes even if every registered Negro in Mississippi showed up at the polls. And, as was true in the Georgia elections last year, Negro voting will not increase nearly as sharply as did registration, especially since the Freedom Democratic Party is urging Negroes in many counties to boycott the primary...
...Help. The big unknown is the Negro vote. Negro registration has surged from 30,000 to 194,000 since 1963, and 120 Negroes are running for office-making it likely that Mississippi soon will have its first black sheriffs and legislators since Reconstruction. White registration, however, rose by 140,000 during the same period...