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Died. Sidney Carr Mize, 77, federal judge for the Southern District of Mississippi since 1937, a deep-dyed segregationist who signed the 1962 order admitting Negro Student James Meredith to Ole Miss only after the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals demanded it; after collapsing on the bench a month ago; in Gulf port, Miss...
...volunteered to work on a project for helping Mississippi's Negroes get registered for voting, Assistant State Attorney General William Allain demanded: "Have you asked to help any of the good white folks in Mississippi? Well, have you?" After two days of testimony, Federal Judge Sidney Mize adjourned the hearing until next week, will probably rule in December...
...before a three-judge panel of the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, where a battery of civil rights lawyers attempted to invoke an 1866 Reconstruction statute empowering federal courts to appoint special U.S. commissioners to police areas where citizens are being denied their rights. Judge Mize had thrown the case out of his court last July, and the lawyers were appealing...
...hours, the Justice Department was in court again. It did not accept Governor Barnett's dare and ask for a contempt citation against him. It asked, instead, for proceedings against the three top university officials, who had been superseded in authority by the Governor. But Federal Judge Sidney Mize, who had refused Meredith's pleas before, once again decided for Mississippi, holding that since the university officials had been preempted of their duties, they were not in contempt...
...month legal battle, university officials presented almost every conceivable reason except his color for rejecting Meredith. They pointed, for example, to the lack of accreditation of the school from which Meredith is transferring-their own Jackson State College. U.S. District Judge Sidney Mize duly ruled that Meredith had been turned down on nonracial grounds. But Circuit Judge John Minor Wisdom called the Ole Miss burlesque "a carefully calculated campaign of delay, harassment and masterly inactivity." He ordered Judge Mize to issue an injunction forcing Meredith's admission. If Meredith enters Ole Miss next fall as planned, Alabama and South...