Waiting for Increase in Civil Rights Activities in Mississippi
Mississippi officials have enacted new laws and tactics to avert violence as civil rights activity is expected to rise this summer. Jackson used policing of movement to deter demonstrations. new statutes empower highway patrol and curb picketing near government entrances, with cities allowed to form mutual aid pacts and impose curbs on movements, curfews, and penalties.
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Dudley Lehew Jackson
Miss
Mississippi
Jackson
Hattiesburg
Canton
Greenwood
Clarksdale
Paul Johnson
Mississippi Highway Patrol
Johnson
Ku Klux Klan
Dragon Lady asks LBJ to help her enter U.S. as visitor
Mrs. Ngo Dinh Nhu, former First Lady of South Vietnam, appealed to President Johnson to overrule the State Department and grant a visa after a prior refusal. She planned to speak July 7 at a truth rally in Flushing, New York, but immigration officials denied the visa under a section barring activities likely to prejudice public interest or endanger welfare.
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Paris
Ngo Dinh Nhu
Johnson
State Department
United States
South Viet Nam
Nhu
Ngo Dinh Diem
Saigon
Conservative Party Club of
Flushing
N.Y
Immigration and Nationality Law
Civil rights volunteers arrested in Moss Point Mississippi
A spokesman for a civil rights group said two volunteers Ronald Ridenour and Howard Kirchenbaum were arrested in Moss Point. Local authorities denied knowledge of arrests and would not confirm charges. The group coordinates civil rights activities in Mississippi and said three lawyers were en route to represent them. A meeting hall burned Tuesday night, officials reported a brush fire nearby.
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Jackson, Miss
Moss Point
Mississippi
Bob Byers
Council of Federated Organizations
Jackson County
Pascagoula
Byers
Ronald Ridenour
Venice
Calif
Howard Kirchenbaum
Long Beach
N.Y
Kirchenbaum
Byerson
Legion post bars topless swimsuit entrant in review
The American Legion post chapter refused entry to a contestant who wished to wear a topless bathing suit in the annual bathing beauty review. Blanche Doster, executive secretary of the June 3 event, declined to name the entrant.
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Mcallen
Tex
American Legion‘ Post
Blanche Doster
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Austin (Minn
Herald
By James Marlow
Washington
Viet Nam
Maxwell D. Taylor
Southeast Asia
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Taylor
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Henry Cabot Lodge
Pennsylvania
William W. Scranton
Sen
Barry Goldwater
Goldwater
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Lodge
Scranton
Republic of Viet Nam
Dragon Lady
Jr. Pullman
Weekender, Jr. Pullman
Pullman
Rts
Penney
Austin Piano Warehouse
Decker Hardware
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