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...just spoken with the StateDepartment and I will not reveal what they said,"Mary Fischer said at her home in the Louisville,Ky., suburb of Okolona. "Right now, I'm in a stateof shock. I just don't know...
...tradition of the 1960s, Robinson's group staged hymn-singing marches. Some of his followers were arrested, but the marches spread to Lexington, Okolona, Canton and Corinth. The Ku Klux Klan held counterdemonstrations, and there were scattered episodes of violence. Robinson's tactics are not born of nostalgia; they fit his perception of the problem. "There's no such thing as the New South," he says bitterly. "There's more racism in Mississippi in 1978 than there was in 1972." But some blacks see Robinson's approach as self-defeating. When the Tupelo city government...
...Token. Raspberry's questioning turn of mind came from his parents, both schoolteachers in the northeastern Mississippi hamlet of Okolona. After graduating from the local black high school, he entered Indiana Central College in Indianapolis and helped support himself by reporting for a local black weekly. A stint in the Army brought him to Washington, where he got a job as a teletypist for the Post. Some months later a sympathetic editor recognized Raspberry's potential as a reporter. He spent four years on civil rights stories. In 1966 he got a chance as a columnist...
...when a grand jury met to investigate the Ole Miss riots. Circuit Court Judge Walter O'Barr, 39, issued a diatribe that would have been laughable had it not reflected the deep feelings of so many Southern citizens. Said Native Mississippian O'Barr, a former mayor of Okolona...
...Beat the Horses." In 1933, "everybody who hadn't been anybody," the buoyant George writes, "was going into Government." George had drifted from a law practice in Okolona, Miss. into the hotel business, and had wound up in Washington. Like most of his friends, in 1929 he had gone broke ($500,000 in the red). But he liked Washington and he made a lot of friends. Franklin Roosevelt did not know him "from George Spelvin," but the President appointed him one of the three District Commissioners of Washington...