Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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School Superintendent Leo C. Schultz saw no alternative but to send the applications through for "processing." Other citizens, however, had a more elementary answer. As darkness fell one night, a band of men planted a ten-foot cross on top of the Mississippi levee near a Negro housing project. They planted another on the Ohio levee, and still another on the outskirts of town...
...years, Illinois has had a law against segregation in public schools, but the city of Cairo (rhymes with faro) has never paid much attention. Cairo (pop. 12,400) happens to sit well below the Mason-Dixon line at the point where the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers meet. To all intents and purposes, it is a Southern town, and its 4,000 Negroes and 8,000 whites live out their carefully segregated lives accordingly...
...list of rules for the conduct of actors and actresses gives an intimate glance at "life upon the wicked stage" as practiced on the old Mississippi show boats. The regulations included a "$5 fine for fishing off boat," and "Actresses must not go around scantily clad, because this is not a beriescue show," and "Ladies, if you must smoke, do so in private as we do not want...
After a 17-mile race through a mounting North Carolina blizzard, Mississippi's Democratic Representative John E. Rankin was arrested by a highway patrolman, charged with careless and reckless driving. Ol' John's futile defense: congressional immunity to arrest except for "treason, felony, or a breach of the peace...
...Army, the tough, patient professionals who train recruits are not generally given to talkativeness, and Master . Sergeant Hubert Lee, 36, was quieter than most. After six months, even his fellow instructors at Fort Sill, Okla. knew only that he came from Mississippi, was a 13-year man, had fought in Europe and Korea. He wore the Silver Star for gallantry. But when he was asked how he got it, Lee always begged off. "I'm not very good about telling combat stories," he would...