Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While politicians, who know a good stump when they see one, exhort the all-white crowd and country bands pick and sing, the spitters gather around tobacco manufacturers' displays on Billy John's log-cabin porch to discuss their craft. Don Snyder, 22, the Mississippi State University student who has held the distance crown for two years, explains that it takes time "to get your juice right. It can't be too thick or too thin. You've got to just chew for about an hour and not drink or eat anything and get your mouth...
...ship and high seas? Why didn't they talk to some of the young blacks who have tried to organize against the oppression they face daily at the hands of white racist officers and chiefs and petty officers? (The Captain of KENNEDY is from Virginia, the Executive Officer from Mississippi...
...Mississippi black leaders branded the panel's report a "whitewash." A federal grand jury and a special presidential commission will now continue their separate probes. But the troopers are not worried. During the past five years, 13 lawsuits have charged them with various kinds of brutal overreaction. Five are still pending; in all but one of the others, local judges and juries have never ruled against the patrol...
...force was founded in 1938 exclusively to patrol highways. But when the civil rights movement focused on Mississippi in 1964, the legislature gave patrolmen full power to enforce "all the laws of the state," including those supporting segregation. In 1965, the patrol handled the transfer of 250 civil rights workers to the Parchman State Penitentiary after they were arrested in Natchez. According to a lawsuit now before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the troopers encouraged harsh treatment of the prisoners, who were stripped and forced to take strong laxatives; one testified that she was made to use her slip...
...unfair to put all the blame on the patrol for its poor performance in racial situations, for the state's present leaders would have it no other way. To them, the force is an admirably efficient defender of Mississippi's traditional way of life. Under different leadership the patrol could doubtless become both fairer and more professional. Alabama troopers, for example, achieved an equally noxious reputation under Governor George Wallace, but they have performed far differently since he left the statehouse. The members of the Mississippi patrol are much like policemen everywhere, says Charles Morgan, Southeastern director...