Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...creed of Negro nonviolence was the hallmark of Montgomery's Reverend Martin Luther King (TIME, Feb. 18), another brand of nonviolence marks the year-old administration of a remarkable Deep South governor, Mississippi's James Plemon Coleman. Coleman wants time to show what Mississippi can do on its own-and he probably wants to run for the Senate in 1960 against Race Baiter James Easttend. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Six-Foot Wedge...
Raising the Level. Above and beyond these achievements, Coleman considers that he has a far more serious mission to fulfill. Mississippi has the most lopsided economy in the South: 42% of its work force is on farms. Striving to eliminate illiteracy and grinding poverty, and determined to raise the lowest per-capita income in the nation and halt an exodus of 40.000 citizens each year, the state has tried to balance agriculture with new industry ever since the first term of Governor Hugh White...
...Coleman's mind, the program has just begun to be effective (26,000 new jobs in ten years; annual per-capita income increased to $946), and Mississippi needs more time to effect the changeover -time that will be swept away if the racial crises fireballing through the South reach at last into the state with the highest percentage (45%) of Negro population in the U.S. To win time, J. P. Coleman has set himself as the wedge between White Citizens' Councils and the N.A.A.C.P. "What we need." says Coleman, "is peace and quiet. What happened in Clinton, Tenn...
...next five years will be used to bring Negro schools up to white levels. The state grants Negro teachers salaries equal to their white counterparts (but local school boards frequently add discriminatory differentials). Unlike governors in Louisiana. Alabama and Texas, Coleman disapproved of banning the N.A.A.C.P. Says a Mississippi N.A.A.C.P. official grudgingly: "For Mississippi. Coleman's an exceptional...
...Good Friend. Ferdinand never gave up. In 1955, he became a Dr. Benjamin Jones (who really was president of Northeast Mississippi Junior College), got himself a job as lieutenant of the guard in Texas' Huntsville Penitentiary. There, a prisoner recognized Ferdinand as the subject of a 1952 LIFE article on "The Master Impostor," but the agile fraud made a quick getaway...