Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the week, some 300 more volunteer civil rights workers-most of them white students-poured into Mississippi, and violence continued. In Hattiesburg, two white men fired shotgun blasts into student automobiles parked outside a civil rights headquarters. From rural southwestern Mississippi came muttered reports of militant white segregationists arming with automatic weapons and hand grenades...
Increasingly fearful, civil rights leaders in Mississippi got off letters to the parents of students already in the state, warning them of the potential danger. Then they announced that planned forays into rural areas had been delayed and, finally, that no more volunteers would be accepted for this summer's "Mississippi project...
Doffing his cowboy hat to the initial applause he proceeded to sing the best from every major songbag of rural America--he sang Leadbelly in his dialect, Blind Lemon Jefferson's Black Snake Moan (as dirty a blues as could be if one listens twice, but which Jack pretends is as clean as an Ivory-washed babe), Cisco Houston, Woody Guthrie, Eric von Schmidt and a dozen other folk classics...
What is the lesson of the north today? Much has been made of the sexual and suicidal pattern of the Nordic countries. Some argue that it is all the fault of the welfare state. The statistics are murky and conflicting. True, mating habits in rural Scandinavia may differ from accepted norms in Syracuse or Sacramento. This probably has more to do with rural isolation and the long winter months than with such newfangled ideas as pensions for Grandpa or socialized playpens. In any case, from Oslo to Stockholm to Copenhagen, no one seems to mind all that much. Busily building...
Dirksen always waits until the last moment, tests the wind, builds suspense, and then throws his support to the seemingly popular side. If he is wrong (as in his opposition to the Marshall plan, federal housing, rural electrification, or even the test ban treaty) he doesn't stay wrong for very long...