Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Emmett Till case first became news in Mississippi, the whole state was aroused against the crime, and anxious to see justice done. But the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (along with Life magazine and other Northern journals which referred to "lynching") obscured the issues so completely that the white people of the state retreated to their old position of distrust of the North and to white supremacy. The cause of better racial relations was deeply harmed. Another instance in which the NAACP seems to have hurt itself here was by its recent protest over...
...example of how the NAACP has lost much respect in Mississippi, among even the most fair-minded people, was its recent handling of the Till case. It loosed a stream of vicious accusations and threats, indicting officials, newspapers, ministers, and the so-called "better citizens" of the entire state. Moreover, it began its accusations as soon as the body was found, despite the fact that every person and organization in the state let out a cry against the murder. People from all types of occupations were asked about the Till case, and no one came near condoning such a brutal...
Just criticism of the Till trial did, of course, exist, Held as it was in an almost exclusively agricultural county, the trial could not avoid having a jury composed of dirt farmers, who have had less exposure to post-war shifts in attitude than any other group in the state. This fact was noted from the onset and motivated the prosecution's legal maneuvers to have the trial moved to an adjacent county where industry has brought a softening of racial ill-feeling...
...have been done at all some years ago). It then went about trying to get a conviction. The two prosecuting attorneys made every attempt to get witnesses and evidence, and the judge was unanimously praised for his fairness, especially in having closed hearings on the racially tender issue of Till's supposed remarks...
...swooped into the Buenos Aires headquarters of the diehard Peronista labor confederation, in a double-locked room discovered a white-shrouded body laid out on a long table flanked by evergreens. The corpse: none other than Eva Peron, perfectly preserved though three years dead of cancer, whose whereabouts was till now a mystery to Argentina's victorious revolutionaries. With ex-Dictator Juan Peron (the "immortal widower") now in exile, Eva's remains will probably be turned over to her mother for burial at last...