Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Love Mississippi," Bradford sings of the places that head the roll of racial hatred--Watts and South Boston. Not too many people from Southie could have been there, in the eight and nine dollar seats, to defend their honor. But most of those who did make it to the Charles Playhouse seemed to have no doubts that they'd gotten their money's worth. On the way out, many of them echoed the words of the black man who sat behind me during the performance: "Beautiful," he kept saying. "Beautiful...
...Down in Mississippi, said Lawyer Nathaniel Jones bitterly, "those who resist change now realize that they can accomplish more by manipulating the legal system and the guys with the black robes than if they go out publicly in the white robes of the K.K.K." Jones, who is general counsel of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, had good reason for his angry observation. Last week the N.A.A.C.P. narrowly averted financial disaster. Ironically for the organization that so often used the law and its own national resources to break segregation in one Southern town after another, the trouble...
...uncle. In February 1967 the boycott was eased after the town hired its first black policeman. Twice more-after Martin Luther King's assassination in 1968 and the police shooting of a Port Gibson black in 1969-the N.A.A.C.P. again turned the boycott screw. But by then the Mississippi legislature had enacted a civil and criminal law banning any "conspiracy" to prevent a citizen from exercising a "lawful trade or calling." The antiboycott bill was backed by then State Representative Robert L. Vaughn, one of the boycotted businessmen...
...secondary boycott since private merchants did not have the power to grant public demands. The damages and attorneys' fees: $1,250,699. The N.A.A.C.P. immediately began planning an appeal, arguing a violation of the First Amendment and the constitutional ban on ex post facto laws. But under another Mississippi law, even if an appeal is filed, the original judgment must be paid within 40 days unless a bond equal to 125% of the total is posted...
...weakened by a fight over who will succeed longtime Director Roy Wilkins, 75, the N.A.A.C.P. was in real fear of a financial debacle. Earlier this year it barely managed to post a $262,000 bond in a libel suit it lost a trial to a policeman from another Mississippi county. By last week an emergency round of fund raising-Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson even passed the hat on the street in front of his office-had produced only $763,374 for the Port Gibson bond. At the same time a frantic series of court appearances was producing negative answers...