Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Columbus (Miss.) Municipal Separate School District et al., the court established that the Columbus school authorities' use of the National Teacher Exam (an ETS test) cut-off score of 1,000 for hiring and promotion created a racist classification. While 90 per cent of the white graduates of Mississippi colleges scores 1,000 or higher, 89 per cent of the black graduates scored below. The court ruled that the racial classification that this created (albeit inadvertently) constituted discrimination under the Fourteenth Amendment and that "there is no convincing evidence in the record showing any relationship between...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Black Students' Association has formed an ad hoc committee to raise money for use by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in a Mississippi law suit brought against the civil rights organization...
...appeal a judge's ruling, Mississippi law requires that a litigant post a bond of 125 per cent of the court award within 45 days. As a result the NAACP was struggling to meet a $1.66 million bond...
...Ford's attempted foray into the region and increased his own leads since the second debate, in part because of the President's mistake on Eastern Europe and the Earl Butz controversy. The Georgian runs ahead in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Florida. Mississippi and Texas lean toward Carter, and a Republican poll now has Carter leading in the Lone Star State 51% to 45%. The contest is neck and neck in Louisiana, but Carter may break out ahead because Democratic Governor Edwin Edwards is putting his organization behind him. Ford has a razor...
...rural folk tale, this musical is very tongue in chic. Self-mocking humor, stylish performances and a stomping vitality convert the original Eudora Welty novella about a Mississippi Robin Hood into a Broadway romp...