Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seem to be working. Of the states that have voted on ERA in 1973, Minnesota, Oregon, Wyoming and South Dakota have ratified it, but North Dakota, Oklahoma and Utah have defeated it outright, and at least five others have struck it down by more subtle means-Montana, Arkansas, Missouri, Mississippi and Virginia. Kansas and Nebraska, both of which passed it last year, are reconsidering their decisions. In short, the momentum of the amendment has been stopped, and it now seems dubious whether the 38 ratifications can be won this year. If the issue drags on into 1974, the prospects...
Last summer, after Harvard granted me sanctuary for a year, I quit my newspaper job and joined the Congressional campaign of Walter Brown, a friend from my college days at the University of Mississippi...
Brown, a 33-year-old lawyer, was serving his second term in the state legislature, and six others sought the fourth district seat vacated by the retirement of Charles Griffin. The district, 12 counties in southwest Mississippi, has about 202,000 voters, a third of them black. It contains Hinds County, site of the state capital and home of 40 per cent of the district's voters, and Jefferson County, political stronghold of Charles Evers...
However, Brown had the making of an improbable alliance. As a teenager he had worked in Washington for then-Congressman John Bell Williams, an oldline Mississippi conservative. Although an ideological chasm separated them politically, a close friendship remained...
...record, too, and it was replete with questionable divisions of interest. He was lawyer for several small loan companies, while he served as chairman of the Senate committee which handled legislation regulating them. He had voted to let credit card companies collect 18 per cent interest in Mississippi, while Brown voted to hold the line at 12. And he had been retained as a lawyer by Litton Industries about the same time he was helping persuade Senators to put the full financial credit of Mississippi behind construction of Litton's giant shipyard on the Gulf Coast...