Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...industries have moved in within ten years. In Scranton, Pa., a city development commission has rallied more than 3,400 investors who have contributed $3,500,000 to build more than 25 plants that have added $23 million in new paychecks. In traditionally low-income areas, e.g., Mississippi, where generous inducements have been offered industry since 1936, 99 new plants have been built in five years with the aid of municipal bond issues...
...other story happened years later when Lawyer Marshall was in a small Mississippi town, waiting for a train to Shreveport...
...that the N.A.A.C.P. has let them down. In other areas, he might want to proceed more vigorously, but clients, because of fear, do not come forward. Marshall does not blame them. He remembers the time when he scroonched down in his B. & O. pants, and the time on the Mississippi railroad platform when he wrapped his constitutional rights in Cellophane...
Where it approaches or exceeds 50%, the end can hardly be imagined. Yet Marshall will not accept a theoretical solution that the only chance for desegregation in Mississippi and other parts of the Deep South is a mass migration of Negroes that will drastically change population percentages (see map). Perhaps he remembers his ancestor from the Congo, who would not leave the state even for his manumission...
...Methodist Conferences of Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi announced plans to build a million-dollar hotel with a modern church on a 30-acre tract in the wide-open gambling town of Biloxi, Miss...