Word: yazoo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...myself were set afoot on highway 49 last week when a gun-waving state cop arrested everybody in our party with a Mississippi license and impounded our car. We later heard that he had some local yahoos out looking for us, but we walked the twenty miles from Yazoo City to Flora in the ditches along the roadside. Yazoo City is a bad problem; we managed to get a lady run out of town just for serving us in her (Negro) cafe, and a man beaten just for talking to us. We've gone in there four times, canvassing...
Visiting Cambridge last weekend, Lowenstein spent a few days at Harvard, encouraging people to act out their belief in civil rights by working in the South. In House dining rooms, groups clustered about Lowenstein to listen to an inexhaustible supply of tales about his personal experiences from Yazoo City, Mississippi, to Cape Town, South Africa. He provoked the interest, sometimes the anger, but always the respect, of those around...
Winding up its business, the association elevated a 14-hour-a-day small-town lawyer, John C. Satterfield, 57, of Yazoo City. Miss. (pop. 12,500), to its presidency. A third-generation attorney and state legislator at 23, Satterfield is the first Mississippian ever to head the A.B.A. Said he last week: "My most important mission will be to propagate world peace through law. This transcends any of our domestic problems...