Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beloved Mississippi...
...MOST SINCERELY GRATEFUL TO ALL CONCERNED FOR THE FRIENDLY PUBLICITY GIVEN THE AFFAIRS OF MY BELOVED MISSISSIPPI IN YOUR ISSUE OF MARCH 4. I TRULY BELIEVE THAT OBJECTIVE TREATMENT OF THE PROBLEMS OF OUR STATE IS ONE OF OUR GREATEST NEEDS...
...months as a history professor at Mississippi's 86-year-old Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College, Clennon King, 36, was a constant irritant to the state-run Negro campus. A Tuskegee graduate with an M.A. from Western Reserve, he was often rude to his students. He also aroused the wrath of President J. R. Otis for his habit of writing letters to the press on issues of the day. Last week the Jackson State Times began publishing a series of articles by Professor King that threatened to blow little (561 students) Alcorn right out of existence...
After the meeting students began packing up to leave. At week's end the state college board declared that those who did not report to their classes on Monday would be considered expelled, which would mean that they would never be eligible for any other Mississippi-run campus. For good measure, it also condemned the administration for having ''wholly failed," fired President Otis, and appointed a new man. The week ended in total confusion. King said he was fired. The board said he was not. The question still remained: would Alcorn have enough students to stay alive...
...recent influx of native-born white Americans. For the past five years, at the rate of more than 1,000 a week, displaced people of Anglo-Saxon stock have been swarming into the city from the scrubby hills, marginal farms and depressed coal-mining areas of Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Mississippi, Arkansas and Alabama. For lack of a better term, Chicagoans concerned with the problem lump the minority under the label "hillbillies." Lured to Chicago by Northern industry, the newcomers are compressed into slums where squalid conditions, strange customs and limited opportunity seem to lay bare more of the bad than...