Word: mississsippi
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...group of Americans from a merchant ship in Luanda's harbor, Luanda's new skin of MPLA signs was mighty impressive. One sailor from Pascagoula, Mississsippi, paid the MPLA organization the highest compliment he could think of: "They're better at this than the Billy Graham Crusade!" All that the Americans had heard about the MPLA was the usual mainstream U.S. media cliches: "radical," "Marxist," "fringe group," "Soviet-supported," with all the connotations of puppetry. But to sign-plaster a city of 500,000 people occupied by the army they'd been fighting for more than a decade--that took...
...Howard will speak the following night on the general problem of civil rights and segregation. Howard, president of the Mississsippi Council of Negro Leadership, will deal largely with pressure on individuals who attempted to get the Negro to exert his right to vote...
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