Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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STATE; 2) IS MISSISSIPPI CONDEMNED
Attorney General Brownell's annual report reemphasized the importance of President Eisenhower's civil rights bill, at present stuck in the Mississippi mud of Senator Eastman's Judiciary Committee. Brownell mentioned many letters demanding action by the Justice Department in "shocking" cases where Negroes had been denied legal equality. These letters are, in effect, a public mandate for some form of the administration bill, which extends Justice Department jurisdiction to active prosecution of civil rights abuses...
...Till kidnapping case and murder of two NAACP leaders in Mississippi were flagrant examples of the absence of "equal protection of the laws" for the Negro citizen. In many less sensational cases between Negro and white, Southern courts have consistently meted prejudicial "justice." Unable to act because the cases themselves concern only violations of state laws, the Department has had to remain passive despite popular protest throughout the rest of the country. The present measure would give a legal implement for enforcing the intent of the Constitution, providing a special division of the Justice Department to investigate civil rights complaints...
Herbert Norman's suicide would have attracted relatively little attention had it not been for the fact that the U.S. Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, headed by Mississippi Democrat James Eastland, last month revived a charge that Norman had been a Communist at Columbia University 19 years ago. Because of the charge, his death caused worldwide headlines and recriminations...
...ladies from Dubuque. He now lives just up the road a piece from Times Square in Exurbia, Connecticut, with his wife and four children, gets along with two station wagons and an old taxi he picked up in London, and resolutely rights off the old nostalgia for his two Mississippi River houseboats. No matter how many agents get pieces of Dick Bissell, there will probably always be one piece of him that is pure Midwest...