Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blacks in Mississippi, the summer and fall of 1971 have been the most hopeful months since the high-water mark of the civil rights movement in the mid-'60s. During the years since passage of the Voting Rights Act, voter-registration drives have put 275,000 new black voters on the rolls. In eleven counties, blacks hold voting majorities, and overall they now amount to 28% of the registered electorate. If all blacks of voting age were registered, they would make up 33% of the registered voters in the state. With Charles Evers, brother of slain Civil Rights Leader...
Voter turnout was the largest in Mississippi history, as high as 90% in some counties, but it was by and large the white voters who came to the polls in unprecedented numbers. The Democratic regulars pressed getting out the vote above all other issues. Mississippi Senators James Eastland and John Stennis traveled down from Washington to stump the state with a single message: go to the polls...
...powerful message that Beck chose for his opening number: "I'm Going Down", an old Freddie King song done in a way that would shake the whole Mississippi delta. Beck made his guitar growl and groan, stomp and shake. Flailing his guitar more than Pete Townsend, and moving about almost as much as Mick Jagger, Beck mesmerized the audience...
...Democrats than Republicans voted against the foreign aid bill; 26 Democrats opposed it, only eight voted for it, while 19 Republicans supported the bill and 15 helped kill it. Negative votes were cast by such normally opposing Senators as Democrats J. William Fulbright of Arkansas and James Eastland of Mississippi and Republicans Mark Hatfield of Oregon and Paul Fannin of Arizona. The fatal vote came after more than nine hours of acrimonious debate and while Senators were yearning to get away for the weekend. Thirty-two Senators were absent...
...without further consideration. But the Congressman, who had said that his life's ambition was to sit on the Supreme Court, abruptly withdrew his name from consideration, unwilling to subject himself to the investigation and debate that he knew would follow. Mitchell then came up with Charles Clark of Mississippi and Paul Roney of Florida, both of whom Nixon had appointed to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Roney is a Republican lawyer with no prior judicial experience. Clark, a Mississippi lawyer, likewise had no earlier experience on the bench. Another Mitchell suggestion was Herschel Friday, a prominent Little Rock...