Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South seethed and rumbled around him, Mississippi-born Publisher Mark Ethridge of the Louisville Courier-Journal, speaking at the University of Florida, had some telling words last week for his fellow Southerners. Excerpts...
...right. Nor has the Supreme Court insisted upon a hurried transition. It has given the 17 states affected a "reasonable time" and, moreover, it returned enforcement to the local courts, knowing that special problems are presented where the population is overwhelmingly Negro. But Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana have not responded with the same understanding which the court...
...Montgomery boycott is unique and significant. It points to a unmistakable trend in Dixie, an increasing awareness by the Negro of his plight and a determination to do something about it. Ironically, the Negroes in Montgomery have appropriated the same weapon which White Citizens' Councils have successfully employed in Mississippi and other states--economic strangulation. It works both ways...
...Morrow Jr. of the state legislature wrote Chancellor J. D. Williams of the university that Kershaw had said he would give some of his winnings to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Morrow suggested that Williams "revoke the Reverend's invitation ever to appear in Mississippi." Later Kershaw wrote a letter to the student Mississippian conceding that he had indeed supported the N.A.A.C.P. because "I am convinced that the core of religious faith is love of God and neighbor." Though Kershaw's scheduled topic ("Religion and Drama") sounded innocent enough, Chancellor Williams told the rector...
...home. Then, Professor Morton B. King Jr., chairman of the university's sociology department, resigned from the faculty. The university administration, he charged, is "no longer able to defend the freedom of thought, inquiry and speech which are essential for higher education to flourish." Two days later, at Mississippi State College, Political Scientist William Buchanan decided to resign too. The state house of representatives denounced the two professors as "misguided reformers," urged the heads of all state-supported colleges to "use every effort to prevent subversive influences from infiltrating into our institutions." Governor James P. Coleman agreed...