Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Slumped in a maximum security cell in Mississippi's State Penitentiary, awaiting execution for the murder of a white woman in 1954, Robert Lee Goldsby, 32, a Negro, has one abiding concern: saving his skin. Last week the onetime lathe operator, whose death has been postponed five times in the past four years, won yet another legal delay, while simultaneously (and unwittingly) nudging forward the cause of Negro civil rights in the Deep South. Opening its fall term, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review -and thereby affirmed-last January's far-reaching decision of the Fifth...
...Under Mississippi law, grand and petit juries are drawn from lists of citizens who have registered and paid poll tax. Among the 8,836 Negroes of Carroll County, Miss. (pop. 15,448), where Goldsby was indicted and tried, there is not one registered voter-hence, no qualified Negro juror. Twenty-two other Mississippi counties with similarly heavy Negro populations are also without Negro voters. Taking note of these statistics, U.S. Circuit Judge Richard T. Rives, Alabama-born, ordered Goldsby retried within eight months (after the Supreme Court ruling) before "a legally constituted jury" (i.e., one chosen from a panel from...
...Mississippi (4-0)-remained undefeated, untied and unscored-upon by lacing feeble Vanderbilt...
...Swarthmore, and a girl in high school, has settled contentedly in Amherst. Although his teaching duties require him to remain in Cambridge during most of the week, he returns home each weekend, because, as he explains, after living on the banks of four rivers, the Charles, the Potomac, the Mississippi, and the Connecticut, he has concluded with characteristic Yankee provincialism that he likes living near the Connecticut River the best "because it divides the United States into two parts, the East and the West...
...prison is tucked in a barren bend of the Mississippi, looking toward fields of Louisiana sugar cane. Inside Angola's cyclone fences are the lifers-men serving sentences for rape and murder. Periodically a short man in rumpled suit and bow tie moves into the prison toolroom, lugging a tape recorder, a six-string guitar, a twelve-string guitar and a fiddle. Around him gather the prisoners-"Guitar" Welch, "Hogman" Maxey, Robert Pete Williams-to shout out their songs...