Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jason Berry, a white southerner who served as Charles Evers' press secretary during Evers' unsuccessful campaign for governor of Mississippi in 1971, has recently published a book which contributes much to our understanding of the political adaptation of southern blacks. Berry's book is a straightforward report of what happened during the campaign without any of the excesses of emotionalism that have plagued other authors who have written on-the-scene accounts of civil rights activity. Berry's most valuable contribution is that he isolates a number of key political factors which make electoral success in Mississippi, and by extension...
...some cases, whites came to Mississippi and did little in the campaign except causing chaos for Evers' permanent staff. Berry chronicles how during the last few weeks of the campaign there was massive disorganization in the central office to the extent that there was so much commotion during the day he found he could only get work done when the volunteers left the office in the evening...
...Hederman family owns the two daily newspapers and carried on an active campaign in its columns for one of the white candidates. Its reporters slurred Evers repeatedly during the campaign, accusing him of having Communist affiliations because he supported a strike by black and white pulpwood cutters in Mississippi...
...Berry learned to his agonizing displeasure, Mississippi journalists are notoriously lazy and rarely travel with the candidates. Since black voters often live in out of the way places which candidates never come to, it is critical that black candidates be able to reach them through the media...
Middle-earth is very nearly as large as the United States east of the Mississippi. Frodo and some true-hearted companions endure Ringwraiths and Barrow-wights, hordes of Ores, who are Sauron's shock troops, and much cloak-and-daggering. When Frodo triumphs, finally, and destroys the ring, it is only with the perverse collaboration of Gollum, a pitiably evil creature with froglike feet who sounds a bit like Oliver Twist's Fagin and is one of the memorable minor characters in English literature...