Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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To most white Mississippians, integration has always been something to be resisted, not accepted. Rallying behind the cry of "Segregation forever," citizens of the state have resorted to violence, intimidation and a Byzantine series of legal maneuvers as they sought to avoid compliance with the U.S. Supreme Court's...
There are some diehard segregationists who refuse to recognize defeat and vow to continue the fight. It is doubtful that they can. Their leaders have so far offered more rhetoric than resistance. Former Gubernatorial Candidate Jimmy Swan called a meeting in Jackson to protest the exploitation of Mississippi schoolchildren by...
No Reprieve. Nor do state officials, who once led the fight against integration, seem willing or able to lead yet another charge on the Constitution. Offering less leadership than sympathy, Governor John Bell Williams, father of two school-age children, delivered an equivocal statement calling for support of the public...
For this reason, opposition is expected to be vocal, not violent, as the desegregated schools open this week. Taking their cue from State Superintendent of Education Dr. Garvin Johnston, most local school authorities have spent the past several weeks in a frenzy of activity, working to shift equipment and portable...
Segregation Academies. In some districts, this will undoubtedly be the case. Philadelphia, near where three civil rights workers were murdered in 1964, is expected to desegregate without incident. So is Yazoo City, a west central Mississippi community of 12,100. Instead of waiting vainly for last-minute deliverance, local leaders...