Word: mississippi
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...grandson of a Mississippi slave, Wilkins was born Aug. 30, 1901, in St. Louis. His parents were both college graduates, his father an ordained minister who could find work only as a foreman in a brick kiln. When Roy Wilkins was four, his mother died of tuberculosis and he was sent to live with relatives in St. Paul. He grew up in a poor but integrated, predominantly Scandinavian neighborhood, working his way through the University of Minnesota as a porter, dining-car waiter and stockyard worker...
...could have returned to the relative comfort of Minnesota. Instead, in 1931 Wilkins joined the N.A.A.C.P. staff, at a time when lynching was still a threat in the U.S. "We had to provide physical security first," he said. At great risk, he investigated brutal conditions in Mississippi delta labor camps, and his report prompted Congress to set up minimum standards and wages for all flood-control laborers. In 1934 he succeeded W.E.B. DuBois as editor of the N.A.A.C.P. magazine, the Crisis...
Since that decision, only one in ten of the nation's lawyers has ventured into advertising. Many still fear that they will be stigmatized. Furthermore, in setting guidelines, many states have retained substantial barriers. Ten states bar slogans, twelve prohibit ads on TV, and Mississippi forbids rhetorical questions like...
...merger looked like a good move, and Feldman started talking to Western Airlines, a regional carrier that flies in 15 states west of the Mississippi, Canada and Mexico. The two companies tried to merge in 1979, but the Civil Aeronautics Board at the time stopped them, arguing that such a deal would reduce air competition on the West Coast. But in March the CAB changed its decision and gave Continental and Western the go-ahead...
...ambitious resolve, but unlike those of many another 33-year-old, it was carried out. Leaving his new, young wife behind, Catlin set out for the territory beyond the Mississippi. For six years he traveled the farthest reaches of the frontier, where a white man had about equal chances of being offered a peace pipe or getting an arrow through his throat...