Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...argument that development of the South, particularly in the field of education, is a very good thing. But in many instances a chamber of commerce approach to the region has fostered a feeling of self-contentment and congratulation: "Why should I go to Harvard for my college education, when Mississippi has a wonderful university at Oxford?" Such sectional attitudes are unfortunate, without the least reflection on the University of Mississippi...
...even more real problem determining Southern college application is the quality of secondary education in the South. The average level of public schools in the Deep South states such as Georgia and Mississippi is far below the national level. In the urban areas this disparity tends to disappear, but even there instruction is below the national par. Thus the student who may be inclined to go outside his area often finds that he is insufficiently prepared...
Considering the exaggeration, distortion and misinterpretation that you employed in trying to ridicule Estes Kefauver, I am not surprised you could find no one better than John Rankin of Mississippi to quote from to back up your opinions...
...Miss Lucy affair at Tuscaloosa, Mississippi's Till murder case, and the Montgomery bus boycott all illustrate the pent-up emotion in the South which comes to the surface periodically. Similarly, the March Declaration of Constitutional Principles issued by 19 Senators and 77 Representatives, all from the South, illustrates the new determination and the new organization of the whites: "we regard the decision of the Supreme Court in the school cases as clear abuse of judicial power... This unwarranted exercise of power by the court, contrary to the Constitution, is creating chaos and confusion in the states primarily affected...
...political views of Washington attempted to halt the disfranchisement of Negroes by state constitutional amendments that Mississippi had begun in 1890 and that South Carolina was about to enact when Washington delivered his Atlanta address. Shortly thereafter he urged that the same qualifications for voting be required of whites as of Negroes and that, as the ballot box was closed, the school houses should be opened. These sound suggestions were not followed. By 1910 all the Southern states had adopted constitutional provisions or enacted legislation that disfranchised much larger numbers of Negroes than of whites. At the same time more...