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...Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Missis sippi, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Texas...
...Virginia-born white seems to discredit him instantly in the eyes of more than one essayist. Rather typically, Political Scientist Charles Hamilton (Black Power) peevishly sees Styron involved in a white man's plot to divest black people of their "historical revolutionary leaders." Novelist John O. Killens ('Sippi) writes: Styron "is like a man who tries to sing the blues when he has not paid his dues." And several essayists, without even the leavening grace of black humor, dryly accuse Styron's Turner of lacking rhythm in his speech. In fact, these black literary jurors are so outraged that...
...leaving the office, he turned around, saying, "And Charlie, there's no more Mississippi anymore. It's 'Sippi now." The Freedom Riders now refer to that state as simply 'Sippi...
...everything, even the dispatch of U.S. troops to keep order in Mississippi. Virginia's segregationist Democratic Representative Howard W. Smith declined to see the delegates: "A waste of your time and mine." Most dramatic confrontation came when Mississippi's Gus Courts walked into the office of Missis sippi's James O. Eastland. Courts told the Senator how he had been shot, whereupon Eastland shook his head and said: "We don't condone that." Eastland remarked afterwards: "Negroes come up to see me all the time...
...entered the University of Missis sippi when he was only 14 (his prep school had closed because of typhoid spread when a pig fell down a cistern...