Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...virtually unknown in the past. But gradualism implies more than the ability not to shout when shouting seems justified; it also, and more importantly, recognizes the endless variations in local conditions within the South, within one state, or even within one county. What may be the solution for Jackson, Mississippi, is probably not the answer for Jackson, Tennessee, or Jacksonville, Florida. And one action that may successfully and painlessly bring integration to white and Negro high school students in an urban community may very well instigate racial hatred and violence in a rural area. The task of bridging the chasm...
...South, and especially the deep South of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina, was not considered when all the wonderfully optimistic statements were made. As a result of activities over the past year, however, all this has changed. Now the South must be considered. It has organized its forces. White and Negro leaders talk mainly about principles now, and the practical moderate has been cowed into silence...
...search for yellow gold has sent Freeport Sulphur Co. deep into the marshes of the Mississippi delta country, drilling from rigs floated atop steel barges or straddled on a forest of pilings. The risks of searching for sulphur are high (the company lost $1.5 million drilling into one barren offshore salt dome last year alone), the costs of mining it even higher. But willingness to take the risks built Freeport into the second biggest producer (first: Texas Gulf Sulphur Co.) of the mineral that is used in the production of everything from fertilizers to detergents, steel and rubber. Last week...
AMONG the world's great waterways the mighty Mississippi, Germany's strategic Kiel Canal, the vital Panama and troubled Suez are all familiar names. But one waterway with more importance than fame is a muddy, undramatic complex of barge canals and shallow channels rambling 1,116 miles around the U.S. Gulf Coast from Brownsville, Texas to St. Marks, Fla. It is the Intracoastal Waterway, tying the entire Gulf Coast area into the nation's vast, 28,000-mile system of waterways. For Southerners it is a chief reason for the greatest boom in Gulf Coast history...
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