Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jackson, Miss, the state legislature assembled in special session last week to circumvent the U.S. Supreme Court ban on segregated public schools. Governor Hugh White's formal call had listed the most important item of business: the long-proposed constitutional amendment to preserve Mississippi's "separate but equal" public-school facilities for 225,000 Negro and 239,000 white children...
Despite the prospect of losing sorely needed federal subsidies (for free school lunches, vocational courses), the Mississippi house of representatives nevertheless passed the amendment on three successive days as required by state law. Final vote: 105-14. The state senate prepared to follow suit; already the measure had been endorsed by 33 of 49 senators. On Dec. 21 the amendment will be submitted to the state's voters in a special election...
...urging passage of the amendment, Governor Hugh White blamed the "crisis" in part on Mississippi's Negro leaders, who are reluctant to approve continued segregation. But he insisted that "there is no intention to 'defy' the Supreme Court; we are simply exercising the same legal right to resist this most unfortunate decision that the [National Association for the Advancement of Colored People] exercised in contesting the [pro-segregation] court decisions of over a half century . . . We shall now resist ... by every legal means at our command...
...William (A Fable) Faulkner decided to sightsee among the well-known Brazilian tourist spots, ended up in the São Paulo snake farm with a full-grown snake coiled around his neck. Calm in the knowledge that, as he has written, "man and his folly . . . will prevail," the Mississippi philosopher declared: "I'm not afraid of snakes. Man is man's most dangerous enemy." Then back to its keeper he handed the snake, which-on close inspection-turned out to be a thoroughly harmless South American species of coral snake...
...control the Moody companies. Among them: a chain of 30 hotels, three banks, eleven ranches, two daily newspapers, a commercial printing plant, a cotton company, and the American National Insurance Co., whose assets of $364 million make it the biggest ($3 billion of policies in force) west of the Mississippi River...