Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Klan leader Sam Bowers would often sit across the street from the Laurel FBI office in his souped-up 1940 black Ford. He usually was with another Klansman. They were "surveilling" us, the FBI. Bowers' Klan organization was known as the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Mississippi. He formed the White Knights because the more widely known klan, the United Klans of America, led by Robert Shelton, was not "aggressive" enough in resisting the civil rights movement. The White Knights looked on the United Klans as "sissies." I hope some of Pol Pot's DNA has been...
...sound developed very quickly, and he was soon known around New Orleans as formidable. The places he played and the people he knew were sweet and innocent at one end of the spectrum and rough at the other. He played picnics for young Negro girls, Mississippi riverboats on which the white people had never seen Negroes in tuxedos before, and dives where the customers cut and shot one another. One time he witnessed two women fighting to the death with knives. Out of those experiences, everything from pomp to humor to erotic charisma to grief to majesty to the profoundly...
First, in February at the ITA National IndoorTeam Championships, the Crimson--then ranked17th--upset the ninth ranked Florida Gators beforeeventually falling to then-No. 5 Mississippi Stateby the slimmest of margins, 4-3, in the nextround...
...less tumultuous than the '60s. We can't hide the fact that few of us have been dragged down the steps of a university building while demanding free speech or that more of us spend our summers in the corporate corridors of Wall Street than on freedom rides to Mississippi. And yes, TV watching is up, video games consume our time and hands and, despite the best efforts of organizations like MTV's Rock the Vote, too many Americans turn 18 without thinking about registering...
Sept. 17-21 - A severe hurricane sweeps in from the Gulf of Mexico, causing widespread damage in Florida, Mississippi and Louisiana and killing at least 100. On Sept. 21, in the hurricane's aftermath, flood waters near New Orleans kill about...