Word: soto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HOLLY SPRINGS, Mississippi--Holly Springs, the county seat of Marshall County, is about 30 miles from the Tennessee border. In the summer of 1964, it became the central office for voter registration activities in eight Mississippi counties: Benton, De Soto, Lafeyette, Lee, Marshall, Tate, Tippah, and Union...
Taking people down to the court house to register was not the main job. Perhaps 200 Negroes took the voter registration test in Marshall County, 350 in Benton and a similar number in De Soto. But in two months the Holly' project registered 5500 people in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic party (MFDP). Of Benton County's 1419 Negroes over 21 years old, 1100 were "freedom registered...
Toward Jim Crow. Negroes helped blaze trails in America, sometimes as slaves but often as scouts and valued aides to many of the famed explorers. They were with Columbus, Balboa, Ponce de León, Cortes, Pizarro, Menéndez, De Soto. Free Negroes were among the first pioneers to settle in the Mississippi Valley in the 17th century. In Virginia, Negro colonists knew no inferiority of status, owned land, voted, mingled with whites. Some 5,000 Negroes fought the British as troops in George Washington's army...
Next year, TIME recorded that "the doings of Walter P. Chrysler, already prodigious, have become fabulous." The ambitious automaker had launched Plymouth in July, De Soto in August, brought out Dodge and set out to build the world's largest skyscraper - all in one year. "Curiously, it was in a jail at year's end" that TIME found the Man of 1930: Mohandas Gandhi. In 193 2, TIME asked of Franklin D. Roosevelt, "Will he make good in the White House? The country is only too ready to hope so." In 1934 it was F.D.R. again, "and only...
...Escape of Billy the Kid. Mixing fact, fiction, sentiment and gunpowder, the U.S.'s grandiose, often grandiloquent summer pageant plays provide a basic drive-in course in history for more than 5,000,000 people a year, some of whom are surprised to learn that the first De Soto did not reach the Great Smokies on six cylinders...