Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obviates the entire argument. When someone like McCarthy talks about "such atom spies as Fuchs, Pontecorvo, and Oppenheimer," we not only classify McCarthy as a liar or boob for so libeling Oppenheimer, but tend to forge that the other two really were atom spies. Similarly, the grouping of "such Mississippi stalwarts as Bibo, Rankin, and Fielding Wright" makes the average Southerner think that not only is all Northern criticism without basis in fact, but that Bilbo and Rankin were not so bad after...
Living in degrading poverty, with no hope for social or economic advancement, it is small wonder that the Mississippi Negro has little pride or ambition. The most ambitious ones go North (lending some justification to the classic Southern cliche, "You never see an unhappy one"), but it is amazing that more do not. Part of the answer, of course, lies in their family ties here...
...fact also remains that today's average Mississippi Negro has found the last remaining way to beat Twentieth Century Responsibility. The old Protestant Ethic has passed him by. Even considering his economic position he pays little taxes (92 percent of West Point's taxes are paid by the minority white population); he avails himself of common law marriage, thus avoiding financial and legal responsibility (80 percent of the state's Negro marriages are so contracted); and he is not expected to be a steady employee...
...abstract. I think the Supreme Court's decision speaks for itself, and I believe that the law should be supported by all of the citizens of the country." When a reporter sought to ask him about the case of Emmett Till, the Negro boy who was murdered in Mississippi, Stevenson interrupted the question to continue an explanation of his attitude on taxes ("While I might be against a tax reduction, which would mean revenue reduction, I might be in favor of tax adjustment"). After Stevenson had finished the tax statement, Chicago Sun Times Reporter John Dreiske...
...criticize the sheriff for mistreating a Negro. When good-looking, dark-haired Mrs. Hazel Brannon Smith, 41, tried this in the two weeklies she owns and edits, she found herself on the losing end of a libel suit filed by the sheriff. But last week, thanks to a Mississippi Supreme Court decision, Editor Smith's courageous editorial voice had the last-and winning-word...