Word: mississippian
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...condition to afford another internecine conflict. National Chairman Ray Bliss, who was put into office to promote unity, is as conscious of the racial problem as the liberals, and has been quietly attempting to solve it. Bliss pushed for the recent appointment of Clarke Reed, a relatively moderate Mississippian, to replace racist Wirt Yerger as state party chairman. "The race issue," Reed is telling G.O.P. candidates, "is dead as a hammer." Bliss also plans to re-establish the National Committee's minorities division, with a Negro as its head...
Founded in the gold-rush days of 1849, the California court seemed destined to become the nation's zaniest tribunal. Justice David C. Terry (1855-59), for example, was a ferocious Mississippian who began honing his bowie knife on assorted victims as a 13-year-old soldier in the Texas War of Independence. After getting elected to the California court on the Know-Nothing ticket, Terry was jailed and convicted for stabbing a San Francisco vigilante. Not only was Terry freed, he became chief justice in 1857 and promptly killed U.S. Senator David C. Broderick in California...
...wrong to say, "not in living memory has a white Mississippian been convicted of raping a Negro" [Nov. 19]. On July 27, 1960, in the Circuit Court of Grenada County, Fifth Judicial District, Mississippi, a white male, L. J. Loden, was charged with raping a Negro female. He was indicted, prosecuted by District Attorney Chatwin M. Jackson Jr. of Kosciusko, Miss., and found guilty by an all-white male jury. He is serving a life sentence in the Mississippi State Penitentiary...
...precedent-setting verdict last week, for example, an all-white jury in Hattiesburg, Miss., found Norman Cannon, 19, guilty of raping a 15-year-old Negro girl. Cannon is white-and not in living memory has a white Mississippian been convicted of raping a Negro...
...four Mississippi counties now under federal registration supervision, he asked for injunctions permitting local officials to reject any voters-federally registered or not-who did not comply with state registration laws. Those laws, which were overwhelmingly approved in a statewide referendum this summer (TIME, Aug. 27), provide that no Mississippian is eligib'e to vote unless he can read and sign his name. This is in direct contradiction to the federal law, which abolishes literacy tests and allows an "X" for a signature...