Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your analysis of the Riot Report was excellent. There is one point that I believe was not emphasized sufficiently: The Negro was forced to migrate from the rural South to the larger cities of the U.S. I suggest that the commission seek remedial action in these Southern states that still practice overt racism in practically every form, not only by white individuals, as is done in other parts of the country, but also by agencies, private as well as state. Subjecting white Southern society to law enforcement regarding civil rights would stop the migration of Negroes to our congested cities...
...Presbyterian minister, Caldwell, 64, has toured the rural Southern states every summer for the past three years, visiting revival meetings and churches. Though "rural camp-meetings have been replaced by brick-walled auditoriums and revival tents by rainproof sheds," he writes, the raucous rhythms of lined-out hymns and "the resounding babble of glossalalia" can still be heard-evidence that neither drive-in movies nor television has "diminished the appeal that uninhibited religious exhibitions have as popular entertainment." One Cumberland mountaineer told Caldwell: "I always go to church on Sundays to get my soul saved like the preacher says...
From the beginning, his bank concentrated on the rural areas in the inte rior, financing coffee growers and cattlemen. Bradesco endeared itself to its distant customers by such services as providing them with needed supplies and taking care of their bills and taxes in the capital. As the interior developed, Bradesco thrived and helped open more territories for cultivation, notably in the north of Parana state, now Brazil's richest coffee-producing area. "The sky is the limit," says Aguiar. "Now we have many more resources. We can do much more...
...University of Wisconsin's Department of Rural Sociology has isolated 23 different ethnic stocks as dominating various sections of the state. German, Polish and Norwegian are the leading foreign stocks, with German dominating 51 counties, Norwegian 11 and Polish...
Racial prejudice nevertheless runs high in rural Wisconsin. Despite liberal state legislation, many small