Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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School integration had gone remarkably smoothly in the steamy cotton town of Drew in the Mississippi Delta. A majority of white parents, to be sure, had taken their children out of Drew High School. But those who remained got along well with their black classmates; there was not a single racial incident during the entire school year. Last week, graduation exercises brought a year of tranquillity to a fitting close. Garbed in caps and gowns, white and blacks mingled freely under the gaze of proud parents...
...Etha was a most unlikely target for a killer's bullet. Popular with her classmates, she had starred on the girls' basketball and track teams and had received a specially created award for her school spirit. She had been planning to attend nearby Mississippi Valley State College in the fall. "It was a senseless act of violence," said Drew Mayor W.O. Williford. "It's just unexplainable...
...Mississippi blacks, on the other hand, had no trouble finding an explanation for the murder. A voter-registration drive aided by young whites from the North had recently started, and local resentments were aroused. Said state N.A.A.C.P. President Aaron Henry: "Apparently they were out to kill a black, any black." In the wake of the killing, angry crowds of Negroes roamed the town, occasionally hurling stones at windows and passing cars. Heavily armed, nervous police patrolled the streets and imposed a one-night curfew...
...chicken emporium, students rioting at the University of Georgia when the first black students were admitted. But Mayor Ivan Allen was the first Southern politician to testify in favor of the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and Atlanta became a weekend oasis for civil rights workers from Mississippi and Alabama...
...cited by name in Nixon's attacks-wants to curb the President's war-making powers. But Javits sided with his party's leader last week in voting against Senator Mike Mansfield's amendment to reduce U.S. forces in Europe by half. John Stennis of Mississippi, who shares Javits' views on war powers, is generally the Senate's stoutest defender of Nixon's defense-budget and national-security policies. Mansfield, whose defeated amendment may have seemed isolationist, supports the President's effort to negotiate peace in the Middle East, an enterprise that...