Word: mississippis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Corinth. The Ku Klux Klan held counterdemonstrations, and there were scattered episodes of violence. Robinson's tactics are not born of nostalgia; they fit his perception of the problem. "There's no such thing as the New South," he says bitterly. "There's more racism in Mississippi in 1978 than there was in 1972." But some blacks see Robinson's approach as self-defeating. When the Tupelo city government recently adopted a sweeping affirmative-action plan, Robinson issued a new list of demands...
...which already requires tax-exempt schools to advertise their absence of racial discrimination, the new plan had seemed a logical next step. In Louisiana and Mississippi, courts have halted state aid to discriminatory schools but have left their federal tax exemptions intact; the new procedure would allow the IRS to lift those exemptions. Says IRS Commissioner Jerome Kurtz: "Existing procedures have permitted some schools to obtain tax-exempt status by having 'paper policies' of nondiscrimination, while in fact continuing to operate in a racially discriminatory manner." U.S. Civil Rights Commission Chairman Arthur Flemming supported Kurtz at last week...
That is, if Congress lets him. Even before Carter took office, he got Mississippi's formidable James Eastland, then chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to agree that federal appeals judges should be nominated by merit commissions. Eastland also promised that his committee would go along with the President's choices. But he balked when it came to the more numerous federal district judges. Instead of a Mississippi commission coming up with five names for a judgeship and the President choosing one, Eastland reportedly told Attorney General Griffin Bell: "I'll hand you a slip of paper...
Thad Cochran, 40, the first Republican Senator from Mississippi since 1881, is as rigidly conservative as his Democratic predecessor, six-term Senator James Eastland. In three terms as a Congressman, Cochran ran up a 95% voting approval rating from the American Conservative Union and a zero approval rating from the liberal Americans for Democratic Action. Cochran has a boyish charm and is an easygoing, relaxed campaigner. He has consistently drawn votes from both parties and run up increasingly large winning margins (as high as 78%) in his congressional campaigns. He won last week in a three-way race against Democratic...
...Mississippi, voters finally eliminated from their state constitution a provision prohibiting anyone who engages in a duel from holding public office or voting. Also struck down in the tide of 20th century progress were requirements that the state librarian be a woman and that railroads be routed through a county seat if they run within three miles of the town...