Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hubert quoted an old-and since modified-Goldwater statement calling for "prompt and final termination of the farm-subsidy programs." This, he told the farmers in his best approximation of cathedral tones, "is the death sentence for agriculture. It would impoverish farm people, wipe out billions in rural land values, ruin business on rural America's main streets, and solve absolutely nothing." And how would Hubert solve things? "You had better make sure that Lyndon Johnson remains as President...
...rural town of Gluckstadt, Mississippi, 10 miles north of Jackson, housed one of the many freedom schools set up this summer as part of the COFO Project in Mississippi. Classes each morning opened with freedom songs (right). The classes were held outdoors after the church in which they had been meeting was burned down on August 10. As part of a citizenship class, the students all wrote to President Johnson, asking for further FBI investigation of this and other church burnings...
...jostling in the aisle, the blind militance of the Mississippi "seat-in," may have dismayed some Vermont politicians and the suburban television audience. But there was another, a back audience crowded around television sets in a thousand grey shacks across rural Mississippi, watching intently as close friends and neighbors stood up to white authority--and got away with...
Take a look at Walker Evan's pictures of rural Alabama homes during the depression. It is the same here. Small children play in the front yard near the rusting skeleton of an auto chassis. Old people sit on the sagging porch. The others are chopping cotton in the nearby fields, wearing broad hats to keep off the sun. Long rows of cotton and corn lurch unsteadily in the waves of heat. When a car passes the dust seems to boil up off the dirt road and settles everywhere...
...voter registration worker" drives from house to house on the rural roads, organizing the Negroes in "his" county. His work lasts from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. It means driving 150 miles per day and talking until he is hoarse. The field worker calls mass meetings, set up youth action groups, and creates local voter's leagues...