Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...black educators, who have been subjected to wholesale demotion or dismissal throughout much of the South. The N.E.A. estimates that at least 5,000 principals and teachers have been affected since desegregation began in 1954. The trend may accelerate during the Justice Department's current integration push. The Mississippi Teachers Association, a black group, claims that 1,500 teachers who worked in the state this past school year will be unemployed next fall...
N.E.A. field studies in Mississippi and Louisiana turned up some appalling cases. Until last summer, Fred McCoy was principal of the all-black Midway Elementary School in Natalbany, La. Integration closed his school, and he was assigned to teach a fourth-grade class at a formerly all-white school-in the morning. In the afternoon, he was expected to do janitor's chores in the school latrines. At least McCoy kept busy. A black former principal in Louisiana has been given a desk to sit at but no title or duties that he has been able to determine...
Last week a newly formed 16-member, biracial state advisory committee on public education for Mississippi visited Washington. The Mississippians, including six blacks, met with the Cabinet committee for two hours; one Administration participant found the group to be "like a bunch of whores in church, all nervous about the publicity they would get back home." They saw Nixon for half an hour. As with U.S.-Soviet relations, Nixon explained, consensus is probably impossible. Still, he said, the mutual goal is to keep the peace, so grounds for accommodation can and must be found. His startling analogy brought to mind...
Litton has been fighting for that contract for three long years. The company first persuaded the Mississippi legislature to vote a controversial $130 million tax-exempt bond issue to build the most modern shipyard in the country. Litton then contracted to lease the facility from the state for 30 years, paying enough to retire the bonds. The yard uses speedy, cost-cutting "modular" techniques developed by the Japanese; sections of ships are built separately, swung into place and welded together. Litton's hopes for defense work were hardly dampened by the fact that Mississippi's Senator John Stennis...
...track. Cambridge is a terribly funny comedian and a terribly unconvincing actor; St. Jacques is a splendid dramatic actor who comes on as a melodramatic heavy in such a farce. Everything that happens is supposed to be very, very black because the money is hidden in a bale of Mississippi cotton, and the pursuing detectives crash into a watermelon stand, and everybody goes around saying "nigger" and "Is that black enough for you?" Biggest joke: when the detectives discover that a white man was in on the heist, Cambridge rumbles, "Honkies in the woodpile...