Word: mississippian
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...myself, and a Vassar girl named C-- drove up to Canton this morning to look the place over. We were looking for a town that was classically Mississippian enough to be the site of the first Community Center. Canton is so classically Mississippian that I can't stand it--cotton and ancient shacks and barefooted (there was a cold drizzle, and the streets were unpaved and muddy) black children. A city cop stopped us, noticing that we had out-of county tags (talk about provincialism), and informed us that we had better not be bringing "any of that freedom crap...
...that was not the case. Judge Hendrick had presided wisely and fairly. Prosecutor Waller, 37, had won the admiration of Northern newsmen for his aggressive presentation. And Defendant Beckwith had been tried be fore a jury of his peers-even if it was all male, all white, and all Mississippian...
...MAKING OF A PRO (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). New York Giant Quarterback Glynn Griffing, the young Mississippian, is the focus of this look at the quarterback's crucial role. Color...
...committing itself to defending the biracial system, he said, Mississippi has erected a "totalitarian society" that blocks change and causes social paralysis. "Thus the Mississippian, who prides himself on his individuality, lives in a climate where nonconformity is forbidden, where the white man is not free, where he does not dare to express a deviating opinion without looking over his shoulder...
...Mississippian, I am constantly confronted with the contemn many South erners hold toward even the name TIME because of its supposed strongly biased commentaries on race. Yet the view of Wallace's Alabama [Sept. 27] is outstandingly accurate and fair...