Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mississippi, evidence does not always equal conviction, especially in civil rights cases. Still, acquittal seemed unlikely last week for eight white men on trial in U.S. District Judge Claude Clayton's court in Oxford. The cause of it all was a wild white mob that undeniably tried to halt school integration in Grenada last fall by flailing Negro schoolchildren with fists, feet, clubs and chains. According to the U.S. prosecutor, the defendants, including a justice of the peace, were part of that mob -and he had 25 witnesses to prove...
...this thing down and get it right; when people put things to language, they control them. Then they can move on to something else." The "racism in reverse" argument about which Anochie complained typify this lack of communication. "If I had a group here that behaved like Mississippi racists," Monro says, "that would be one thing...
Like the classes which preceeded it, this one broadened the scope of student activism, involvement in the University community and national politics. Many members went south in the summer of 1964 to participate in sit-ins, pickets and other civil rights organizing in Mississippi. In one form or another, almost all were drawn into the Vietnam debate; increasingly, they signed petitions, or marched; and, increasingly, they turned against...
AFTER CIVIL RIGHTS . . . BLACK POWER (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Newsman Sandor Vanocur reports on the rising militancy in the civil rights movement. Film clips and interviews with activists in Baltimore, Atlanta, Washington, and rural parts of Mississippi...
...spoke there [May 12]. Apparently the ideal of freedom of speech these students pretend to cherish so dearly can be applied only to speakers who advocate views in agreement with their own. Dartmouth students would be well advised to follow the example set by students at the University of Mississippi when they cordially received Robert Kennedy last year...