Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MISSISSIPPI: Only 20,000 Negroes registered for the 1956 elections out of a total of 497,350 eligible; in 13 counties of more than 50% Negro population, a total of 14 Negro votes was cast in the 1954 elections, while in five counties not a single Negro was allowed to vote...
When he entered his first-floor office one night, a University of Mississippi staffman was just in time to see a figure clamber out of the window and dart away into the night. The prowler had stolen nothing, but he had ransacked the desk. What was the man after? The staffman's conclusion: any personal notes or letters containing sentiments in favor of racial integration...
Concluded the Delta Democrat-Times from its interviews with the faculty: ''The fact that it is almost impossible to get good replacements [for those leaving] makes the situation even more alarming. After all, prospective recruits reason, why come to Mississippi for less money and less freedom...
...whole long struggle would have struck the cowboy artist as a lot of tomfoolery. As to how Charlie would have felt if he had known he was going to make his last stand cooped up in the company of 42 heroes of other states, e.g., Massachusetts' Sam Adams, Mississippi's Jefferson Davis, Texas' Sam Houston and Pennsylvania's Robert Fulton.* not even the cussingest barkeep west of Helena could...
...Hideaway. At nearby Frontierland, a Wild West stagecoach and a mule train churn the dust; if business slacks, villainous Black Bart conveniently shoots it out with Sheriff Lucky in a haze of gun smoke, later distributes used cartridge cases to the newly corralled crowd. On Disney's miniature Mississippi, a five-eighths scale stern wheeler carries 9,000 landlubbers daily over waters alive with birchbark canoes paddled by Disney-employed Sioux, Shawnee and Winnebago Indians. And in Adventureland nearly 3,000,000 people (adults 50?, children 35?) paid more than $1,000,000 last year to sail down...