NAACP Charges Mississippi Plans Genocide to Kill Negroes
NAACP investigators from New York allege Mississippi aims to eradicate Black residents through starvation and voter suppression in the Delta. The report cites poverty, unemployment, and exclusion of agrarian workers, urging emergency federal action and classification of the state as an emergency poverty area.
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Boston
UPI
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Mississippi
NAACP
Delta
Alex Waites
New York City
Waites
Rollie Eubanks
Bitter Row Over Feeding of Dixie Negroes in Mississippi
Washington witnesses Sen. Javits and Sec. Freeman clash at a hunger hearing over food distribution delays in Mississippi. Freeman defends program changes to broaden food stamps while Javits accuses delays and calls for emergency action. Kennedy seeks a Public Health Service inquiry as New York and Mississippi hunger reports trigger partisan sharp exchange.
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Javits
Freeman
Washington
Johnson Administration
Mississippi
Orville L. Freeman
Jacob K. Javits
R-N.y
Joseph 5. Clark
Pennsylvania
Clark
Senate
Robert F. Kennedy
D-N.y
New York Republican
Kennedy
Public Health Service
New York
Demo Leaders Reject Quota Seating Plan
Democratic leaders rejected a quota seating plan for the 1968 convention, endorsing broadly representative state delegations instead. The move followed disputes over 1964 all white delegations from Alabama and Mississippi and was issued by the special equal rights committee led by Gov. Richard J. Hughes.
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Washington
UPI
Democratic Party
Special Equal Rights Committee
Richard J. Hughes
New Jersey
Alabama
Mississippi
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