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Mississippi Struggles Over Desegregation and Goldwater Debate
UPI dispatch from Mississippi surveys violence and fear amid a summer civil rights drive. It details voter-registration efforts, freedom schools, and white resistance, with quotes from Gov. Johnson and Barnett, plus a note on Goldwater’s stance and national reaction. The piece ends with a New England forecast and Blackburn College’s student work study model.
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Mississippi
Howell
Drew
Ross Robert Barnett
Paul B. Johnson
U.S
Biloxi
Jackson
Barnett
Leake
Jackson Chamber of Commerce
Allen Thompson
Greenville
Natchez
A. D. Bland
Greenwood
Staughton Lyndh
Yale University
Freedom
Betty Levy
New York City
America
Meridian
Barry Goldwater
Senate
Goldwater
South
Urban League
Arizona
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Ross Barnett
University of Mississippi
Washington