Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leader of the organized Negro community in Mississippi last night severely criticized complacency towards "the greatest threat today to American democracy: Southern refusals to accept desegregation...
...Theodore R.M. Howard, a Mississippi Negro leader, will speak tonight on "Murder and Mississippi." Sponsored by the Harvard Society for Minority Rights, he will talk in New Lecture Hall...
...Howard will use this example of the Southern problem as he deals with the question of "Civil Rights in Mississippi...
...Township Auditorium sat noted Southern leaders: former Senator, former Supreme Court Justice, former "Assistant President," former Secretary of State, former Governor James Byrnes; South Carolina's two U.S. Senators, Olin Johnston and Strom Thur. mond; and the principal speaker of the evening, Senator James Eastland of Mississippi. A retired Presbyterian minister, L. B. McCord, began the meeting with a prayer: "If we're wrong, enlighten our minds, enlarge our hearts. Help us in our efforts to preserve our race and our country." When a Confederate flag was unfurled from the second-floor balcony, the citizens shouted their approval...
...Negro wings of the party. Signs now appear that this will be more and more difficult. Adlai Stevenson finds himself cast as a villain by the liberal magazine Frontier, "the Voice of the New West." Cried Frontier last month: "As long as small colored boys can be murdered in Mississippi without protection of the law, Stevenson's moderate approach to reform will strike most Negroes as distressingly inadequate. And Stevenson's frequent trips into the South, along with those of his lieutenants, Butler and Mitchell, have given rise to speculation among Negroes that he has made a deal...