Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...members. Epps also joined Thomas I. Atkins, then a graduate student and now a Boston city councillor, in organizing a number of marches on the Boston school committee's offices. In May 1964, activists discovered that Harvard was the largest single share-holder in the holding company that owned Mississippi Power and Light, whose board of directors included several members of local white Citizens' Councils--it was the first time Harvard's stock ownership had been controversial, but it wouldn't be the last, even for the same holding company, Middle South Utilities...
Nevertheless, more Harvard students than ever before joined the civil-rights movement that summer. Twenty-seven were arrested for picketing the old Hayes-Bickford Cafeteria, demanding that it hire more blacks. Several dozen more joined the Council of Federated Organization's Mississippi Summer, once more risking arrest or (many of them thought) worse to help register southern blacks, run "freedom schools," or organize for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. In the fall, 20 SDS members began block-by-block organizing in an integrated Roxbury community, beginning with demands that abandoned and unsafe buildings in the area be demolished...
...including Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, professor of History, while 35 picketers demonstrated outside: It saw a group of Harvard students, mostly Crimson editors, organize The Southern Courier, an Alabama weekly designed to provide objective, sympathetic coverage of the civil-rights movement that was reaching about 10,000 Alabama and Mississippi readers, mostly poor blacks, when it finally folded for lack of funds early in 1969. And the spring saw what may have been the feminist movement's first, half-joking intrusion into a Harvard still wracked by controversy over extending parietal hours on football Saturdays and not yet even seriously...
...most famous hits: Superwoman, Superstition, Keep on Running. It was fine to hear a voice so long addicted to sweet soul now revel in husky, emotive blues growls. The pulsating climax came with an almost symphonic version of his Living for the City, a black odyssey that begins in Mississippi and ends with the arrest of an innocent youth in New York...
...proposal calls for one voyage down the Yangtze River during the summer of 1975, and a second down the Mississippi...