Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cannot expect semieducated, insecure, bigoted people to select a representative better than themselves. If Mississippi were owned by another nation, we would declare it "underdeveloped," send it Point 4, and make vague promises of eventual self-determination...
...line. Perhaps because they are the only Americans who ever lost a war, Southerners are more likely than others to take a tragic view of life, and man's depravity is the favorite preoccupation of Southern literature-whether magnolia-scented or corn-likker-tainted. Borden Deal, 33, a Mississippi-born short story writer, belongs to the white-mule team. Readers who can digest a sort of homily-grits style and who have a strong head for Southern discomfort will find that in his first novel the corn has not been squeezed in vain. Walk Through the Valley...
...seen near the Miami Airport or in Jackson, Miss." The Milwaukee Federated Trades Council recently wrote labor groups in ten Southern states, asking if they knew of any such Negro recruiting for Milwaukee. The answers were negative, except for two Wisconsin employers' associations seeking summer agricultural help from Mississippi. ¶That Zeidler's daughter is married to a Negro. In fact, Zeidler has six children, of whom the oldest is a daughter-unmarried...
...Louis by John Hamilton, an ex-Communist, printed a photograph of Falstaff's Vice President Karl Vollmer handing the check to an N.A.A.C.P. official. Squawked the White Sentinel: "When you drink Falstaff beer, you are aiding the integration and mongrelization of America." White Sentinel copies were circulated in Mississippi's Delta region, where Falstaff sales were cut. Vice President Vollmer flew to Jackson to say publicly: "No officer of Falstaff has ever commented favorably or otherwise on the principles of the N.A.A.C.P." After that, officials of the Jackson Citizens' Council declared the company innocent of the charges...
HIGHER RAIL FARES are coming on 89 eastern and western railroads. The roads are asking for a flat 5% fare increase on all trips west of the Mississippi and north of the Potomac and Ohio Rivers. They will probably get it, since the ICC is sympathetic to their claims of a $700 million annual loss on passenger operations...