Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conditioned by many things: population trends, size of the community, Negro population, the degree of industrialism, tradition of suffrage or lack of suffrage, and strength of local Negro and white leaders. The same type of voluntary arrangement which will produce integration in Louisville, Kentucky, will produce nothing in Louisville, Mississippi...
...violations. Hit hardest, Auburn was put on three-year probation, forbidden to participate in N.C.A.A. championship and invitation events for two years, forbidden to participate in the N.C.A.A.'s nationally televised football series. The Universities of Florida and Louisville drew two years' probation apiece; Texas A. & M., Mississippi College and the University of Kansas all drew a year in the penalty...
Died. Fielding Lewis Wright, 60, fiery Mississippi Delta lawyer, 1948 candidate for Vice President of the U.S. on the Dixiecrat ticket, 1½time white supremacist governor of Mississippi (1946-52); of a heart attack; in Jackson. Miss...
...corn, were a geometric pattern of black and brown and green. On to the West and South, through Kansas and into Texas, the spreading, endless fields of wheat were coming green and beginning to ripple softly in the wind. In the Deep South, across the bottom of Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia, green shoots were peeking out of the ridges in the cotton fields...
...Corp., Georgia's biggest employer, has been equally successful in assigning Negro workers to skilled assembly and fabrication jobs at its huge Marietta bomber plant, recently hired its first Negro engineer. In some Southern cities women office workers of both races also work desk by desk. Even in Mississippi, where former Governor Hugh White vowed last year that segregation would be preserved "until hell freezes over," dozens of industries from the North have integrated workers without incident...