Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women serve in the 94th Congress, up from 16 in the 93rd. Mississippi and Kentucky last fall elected women as Lieutenant Governors (New York already had one). More than 1,200 women in 1974 were candidates for state legislative office, one-third more than in 1972. About half of them...
...Brooklyn native, Brownmiller, now 40 and single, attended Cornell, leaving before graduation to study acting in Manhattan and to begin a career as a kind of intellectual odd-jobber: as a Newsweek researcher, a civil rights worker in Mississippi, a TV reporter in Philadelphia and a staff writer for the Village Voice. In the late '60s she joined one of the first feminist groups in New York and, says Brownmiller, "all of a sudden I knew I was home...
...routes through Alabama, one through Montgomery and Mobile and the other through Birmingham. The second is better, for what it holds in store later; the first forces you through a great deal of time in Alabama, a state where there isn't much in the way of variety. Mississippi, though, is a different story, and if you take the Birmingham route you'll pass through its entire lower half. It's near-wilderness in a lot of places. There's no traffic, and you can go as fast as you want. Walker Percy called Mississippi a paradise...
Driving to Rochester. Flying down Interstate 90, which goes through upstate New York, a snip of Pennsylvania near Erie, Cleveland and Ohio, Indiana to Gary, where it runs next to the U.S. Steel Works, on past Chicago, veering north-west to the enclave of Madison, Wisconsin, crossing the Mississippi near Dubuque into the boring farmland of southern Minnesota, where Hubert Humphrey was born among grain elevators seen from miles away and welcoming like a pleasure ship to life-raft drifters (not like lush Iowa to the south) into South Dakota, the Badlands and Wall Drug and the Black Hills...
...when Stokely Carmichael staged his Mississippi March from Alabama, Doar and Nesson were working in Lowndes County there, known as "Bloody Lowndes." Doar and Nesson brought about the first convictions of Ku Klux Klan members before an all-white jury for violence against black citizens...