Word: mississippis
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There is little doubt that the "emotionalism" of the NAACP has aggravated the guilty pride of the Southerner, and in publicizing the Till case the NAACP set out to provoke aggravation. For, as Mr. Halberstam says, "there is a double standard of justice in Mississippi, one for Negroes, the other for whites. On the assumption that the evidence clearly pointed to Milam and Bryant as the kidnappers and murderers of Emmett Till, the group sought to focus national and world attention on the small Southern courtroom. The state attorney general had brought the defendants to trial, but this conscientious action...
...South, the NAACP continued to stir up the public, feeling that they had nothing to fear, since the Negro's situation could not get worse. The jury would not bring an effective conviction, the group felt, and a national awareness of the case would at least put Mississippi justice on public record...
...Negro will never rise above his present unfortunate position, the NAACP feels, unless the nation, especially people like the citizens of West Point, Mississippi, become aware of their responsibilities towards him. This national awareness will never occur unless there is some group, like the NAACP, prepared to speak out in the Negro's defense...
...Negro in the South: I" in the Dec. 1 issue of the CRIMSON, we agree that his article sounded "one-sided" in the extreme. We can agree with Mr. Halberstam's view that the NAACP denouncement of the treatment of Negroes in the South generally and in Mississippi particularly is propaganda. (Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines propaganda as, "Any organized or concerted group, effort, or movement to spread particular doctrines, information, etc.") But it does not follow that, as Mr. Halberstam's article implies, propaganda as such is a falsehood or is destructive. And we do not believe that...
...three of the murdered person was the undemocratic act of getting the Negro population to exercise their Constitutional right to vote; or had themselves attempted to exercise that right. If Mr. Halberstam believes that to propagandize against these violations of the civil and human rights of Negroes in Mississippi is "to obscure the true picture in the South" and is destructive to the resolution of the racial problem in the United States generally, he is quite mistaken...