Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quote Governor Coleman of Mississippi as saying "the white people of Mississippi are not a race of Negro killers. Official figures for 1954 show that in that year eight white people were killed by Negroes, while 182 Negroes were killed by members of their own race." Of what significance and comparative value are these figures? Should you not have stated the number of Negroes killed by whites...
Friendly Hedge. Also swinging through California, Campaigner Estes Kefauver faced the same kind of questions and left behind an entirely different impression. Calling the Emmett Till case in Mississippi "a horrible murder," he said he favored a federal anti-mob statute. In a friendly but carefully hedged statement he indicated that he would support Powell's proposal if it became necessary, and if it could be worded to protect the purposes of the school-aid bill. If elected President, he said, he would 1) appoint a commission of white and Negro educational leaders in the South to confer...
...Howard, President of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership in Mississippi, and President-elect of the Negro Medical Association, made his attack before some 450 people at a meeting in New Lecture Hall sponsored by the Society for Minority Rights...
Howard said he was disturbed by Northern complacency and especially "these people who sit in segregated churches feeling virtuous." People like Mississippi's Senator Eastland are as subversive as any communist and should be treated as severely, he stated...
Howard charged that the White Citizens' Council in Mississippi had begun a program of economic pressure in an attempt to force 500,000 Negroes to leave the state...