Word: mississippi
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...insensitivity to Negroes, the Nixon Administration lobbied last week to disarm legislation intended to sabotage Southern school desegregation. At issue was the "Whitten amendment," a booby trap tacked on to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare's $17.8 billion appropriations bill by Representative Jamie L. Whitten of Mississippi...
Although the battle over the Whitten amendment is ended-this year-the war goes on. Southern Congressmen are concentrating their fire on what Mississippi's Senator John Stennis refers to as the "sectional policy of forcing greater integration on the South than is actually practiced in many Northern cities." Stennis believes, probably rightly, that "if this pattern is enforced outside the South, it will bring about a more modified policy." He is contemplating legislation that would create an automatic presumption of illegal segregation wherever minority groups account for more than 50% of a school's enrollment. The result...
Southern segregationists suffered another rebuff last week from the Supreme Court. Last fall, in Holmes v. Alexander, the court told 33 Mississippi school districts to desegregate "at once." The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit carried out that order by giving the districts only until Dec. 31. But when 16 more districts in six Southern states came up for consideration last month, the Fifth Circuit faltered; it gave those districts, and by implication the rest of the South, until next fall to integrate student bodies. Last week the Supreme Court knocked down the "next fall" provision and ordered...
...also announced yesterday plans for a mass rally on Sunday at Memorial Church, for which they are "asking for and expecting to receive support from many sectors of the black community." OBU has invited national black leader Floyd McKissick and Fanny Lou Hamer of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to speak at the rally...
...social action among Christian churches, the council has come under increasing fire lately. Critics-many of them inside the N.C.C. -argue that its cumbersome bureaucracy can do little more than issue position papers on current problems, and that practical accomplishments like its controversial Delta Ministry, which works among poor Mississippi Negroes, are rare exceptions. During preparations for this month's triennial general assembly in Detroit, Christian Century predicted that the N.C.C. would see "a crunch of intense feelings and an unleashing of the urge to tell it like it is." The crunch came last week in Detroit...