Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cynicism about the Supreme Court." Before a group of his own restive civil rights lawyers, he pointed proudly to his department's accomplishments for Southern blacks; in one year, it added 108 school districts to the 162 desegregated from 1954 to 1969. When an ugly confrontation seemed likely between Mississippi state police and students at Jackson State after the shootings, he ordered Assistant Attorney General Jerris Leonard off on an Air Force plane to smooth things out there...
Barbers' Razors. In some less urbane areas than Atlanta, the racial tensions seemed more ominous and violence prone than in the early days of the civil rights movement. In Jackson, where Mississippi state troopers had raked a crowd of black demonstrators with at least 250 shots, killing two, outraged Negroes marched almost daily through the' streets. Rumors grew of more rioting to come, and the public schools were closed. White homeowners rushed to buy guns, and young blacks walked about with long barbers' razors purposely allowed to protrude from their back pockets. Eight ghetto stores were firebombed...
...farmer, gave up a $14,000-a-year job with the U.S. Department of Agriculture ("I was a very., very good chemist") to join Martin Luther King Jr. Williams has since become one of the country's leading civil rights leaders. He was field marshal for the Meredith Mississippi march and the march from Selma to Montgomery, as well as last week's march to Atlanta. TIME Correspondent Peter Range kept pace with him for a time last week as Williams bitterly talked about the events at Augusta, Ga., and Jackson, Miss., and the mood of the civil...
...fear. So we're undergoing an educational process. You know, after the voting-rights bill was passed, the only place where people crowded up by the thousands to register was in Alabama−because of the educational process that took place on the Selma-to-Montgomery march. Mississippi rid itself of much fear in the Meredith march. Now we're trying to do the same thing in Georgia...
...McCormack's rare rebellions against a Democratic President. McCormack prevailed. They called him the "Archbishop" in the cloakrooms, and he resented it. Despite his close association with Southern Democrats throughout his House career, McCormack was also a strong advocate of civil rights legislation. He once denounced a Mississippi Democrat on the floor for his bigotry. He was always cordial toward the Jewish community, and his first appointment to the Naval Academy was a Jewish youth: some of his constituents called him "Rabbi John...