Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year ago this spring Cat Nguyen was 16, an honors student at West Jefferson High School, just across the Mississippi River from New Orleans, and an editor of a soon-to-be mimeographed school paper called Your Side. Five years before that she had reached this country from Viet Nam, with no command of English. Having come so far so quickly, she thought the world was at her ! feet -- until Principal Eldon Orgeron saw the paper and banned...
Democratic Representative Michael Espy, the first black elected to Congress from Mississippi since Reconstruction, at Jackson State University, Jackson, Miss.: In the area of civil and human rights, it is said that your class and your generation are tired, that you have no appreciation for what your parents and grandparents went through to get you here. I don't believe this is true. I've talked with you. I visited your classes. You know that racism and discrimination have not vanished into history, that they are as much in the present as in the past, and that your goal...
...many agree with Martin Marty, who says, "I don't think there ever were any good old days" in the sense of a more moral America. As the Rev. McMillan puts it, "I don't know when these good old days were when they talk about morality in Mississippi. There was a lot of teenage pregnancy back then, but it was black girls being impregnated by white men. Black people were being lynched, and nothing was being done about...
Before entering, it is useful to poke about -- that is if it is in a season when the wind doesn't knock you flat. The wind is nearly always remarkable west of the Mississippi, but each time it forces an occasional visitor into the posture of a boomerang, leaning as far forward as possible in order to gain ground, feels like the end of the world. In any event, the wind doesn't "sing" through the Aleppo pines in these parts so much as it tries to uproot them (the hardest evidence of its vigor is on the barn...
...have received scattered reports that a chain letter scheme involving U.S. Savings Bonds has surfaced in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Mississippi. As you know, these schemes can spread rapidly. The Bureau of Public Dept has asked Federal Reserve Banks to contact all issuing agents informing them of the development...