Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mississippi officials feel strongly that the Northern press, through "sensationalism," has been misrepresenting the facts on segregation in their state. Last week Mississippi invited 20 small-town New England editors and publishers to come down at the state's expense to learn "the truth about what segregation is, and why." For seven days the editors toured the state as guests of the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, set up by the legislature with $250,000 to protect the state's "way of life." The commission's pressagent, Hal DeCell, 32, promised "to show them whatever they want...
Before the Yankee editors got started, Mississippi's Governor J. P. Coleman explained that segregation would continue in Mississippi "for at least the next 50 years. We don't intend to obey the Supreme Court's decision because it is not based on law." But, he assured the newsmen, "there is no tension or malice or ill will between the races. I have not heard of any trouble where [Negroes] have voted." Most Negroes do not vote, he said, because of unwillingness to pay the poll tax or failure to pass a literacy test...
...editors found that Mississippi did not live entirely up to Governor Coleman's billing. Items: ¶Mound Bayou, the biggest (pop. 1,350) all-Negro town in the state, votes in every election, Vice Mayor I. E. Edwards said, but the ballots are never counted by election officials at the county seat...
...tour approached, a few of the New Englanders, like Editor Samuel, thought that "there will never be integration, Mississippi's way of life will remain as it is." But most of the editors felt that segregation was doomed even in Mississippi-though many believed that it might well linger as long as Governor Coleman's 50 years. Said Editor Cummings: "Equal justice must come. Our system makes no allowance for 47 states and Mississippi...
...possible to demonstrate that the states where active Harvard Clubs exist are the ones which send the largest number of students to Cambridge. For instance, Alabama has seven students in the Class of 1959 while its neighboring state of Mississippi has only...