Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know one another," Coles has written, in the space of barely ten years, 13 books and hundreds of articles. Although no political organizer himself, as early as 1962 he joined hands with SNCC, with CORE, and the Appalachian Volunteers, and in 1964, with the McComb Freedom House and the Mississippi Summer Project. (He and Stokely Carmichael taught a seminar on non-violence to college students preparing for the 1964 civil rights crusade.) In 1965 he evaluated and helped improve the medical project of the Mississippi Headstart Program for the OEO. His testimony before the National Advisory Committee on Farm Labor...
...Motels, Frank Zappa's first and only movie. Harvard Square, 2:30, 6:05, 9:40. With Mississippi Mermaid. 4:15 and 7:50. Until...
...Mississippi black...
That adolescent is typical of the displaced Southerners, both black and white, about whom Coles writes in the second of his new books, The South Goes North. Four times Coles watched black Alabama and Mississippi families "slip away from the plantation or cabin and drive off with a look of relief and bitter joy and regret and sadness and triumph." Three times he went along with white families from West Virginia when they moved to Chicago, staying to observe the "settling in" process. But much of his time for six years was spent in regularly visiting ten white families...
...actions--or more precisely that actions of Hayes--it had brought about the political bankruptcy of black people in the Deep South. Second, it demonstrates the degree to which politically skillful black men were able to institutionalize their power within the party. Both Bruce and Kelso were from Mississippi, a state that had been fatally unreconstructed by Hayes's removal of the Federal troops. Although this meant that it was impossible for either man to deliver the same vote in the national election that they had earlier given to the Republican candidate, it was not until 1916 that the party...