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After graduation, Halberstam joined a small Mississippi daily newspaper, but he continued to file reports for The Crimson from the Deep South. His dispatches were sometimes critical of civil rights activists (see here and here) and may seem outdated to the modern reader. But then again, he was only 21. And while others from the Class of ’55 were working as copy boys at big-city dailies, Halberstam already had set off on his lifetime journey into journalism. “I wanted to report, and I was ready to report, not get coffee for someone else...
...October 1, 1997: Pearl, Mississippi A 16-year-old kills his mother, then goes to school and shoots nine others...
Kennedy School Lecturer in Public Policy Marshall L. Ganz, who cut short his Harvard undergraduate career in 1964 to volunteer as a civil rights organizer in Mississippi, called next year’s election the “most important election since...
...Nine churches in all would be torched in rural Alabama: five near Birmingham and four near the Mississippi line. The first five were burned on one night and four nights later Cloyd and Moseley set fire to four more churches to divert law enforcement. Two firefighters were injured battling the blazes. The young men were found after a massive manhunt tracked a mysterious SUV that left tracks from Cloyd?s specially purchased off-road tires. U.S. District Judge David Proctor sentenced Cloyd and Moseley to eight years and 11 months; DeBusk got seven years. The trio have been ordered...
...federal Fish and Wildlife Service banned lead ammo in waterfowl hunting - that of ducks and other birds that live on water - which, according to a FWS spokesperson, led to an estimated 64% reduction of lead poisoning in ducks on certain parts of the Mississippi. The most recent comprehensive state ban began on March 1 in Missouri, where state officials realized lead buckshot was harming populations of mourning doves, turkeys, quail, shorebirds and raptors. Several other states, including Washington, Arizona, Texas, Ilinois and Virginia, are also considering lead bans...