Mississippi Methodists condemn Millsaps over integration event
Excerpted column recalls February 1958 national debate as twenty eight young Methodist ministers urge Millsaps College to address integration. Mississippi church leaders and trustees faced pressure from local Christians over inviting an integrationist speaker. Academic Freedom defense cited, dismissed as a Communist line.
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John Howard Griffin
Mansfield
Texas
Atlanta
John
P.D
Magnolia
Millsaps College
Jackson
Ellis Finger
Mississippi
Millsaps
Commie
Fiorello the Magnificent Biographical Review
A 1962 Hill & Wang biography of Fiorello H La Guardia by Bella Rodman and Philip Sterling profiles the New York mayor as a hunter of graft and reform. The review contrasts Orion’s hunter glow with La Guardia’s blunt political courage and Tammany-era battles.
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Fiorello LA Guardia
Bella Rodman
Philip Sterling
Hill & Wang
New York
Orion
Fiorello the Magnificent
Tammany
Cross Examination of Senator Eastland in Shelton Contempt Trial
The article recounts Senator James Eastland's brusque cross examination by counsel Joseph Rauh Jr. in the Shelton contempt retrial before the Internal Security subcommittee. Eastland denies briefing with Jules Sourwine yet contradicts himself, raising questions about memory and credibility in the 1956 hearings and committee actions.
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James O. Eastland
Robert Shelton
Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
Eastland
Joseph L. Raunh, Jr
Shelton
Mississippi McCarthy
Jules Sourwine
Subcommittee
Eastland Committee
New York Times
Rauh
Internal Security Committee
Sourwine
Nevada
Mis
Illegitimacy Gap Between Racial Groups Highlighted
The release compares January and February statistics with 1915 to 1961 data from the State Board of Health showing illegitimate births rising from 14.1% to 25.4% among non whites and from .7% to 1.5% among whites. The note asserts a morality divide and warns against integration.
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State Board of Health of
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East Side
Dogstar
Senator
ALL Taxpayers Welfare Department
Fred A. Ross
Department OF Public Welfare
State OF Mississippi
Cox
Butane Jackson
Mississiri
State Board
Welfare Department
Hadi Commissioner
Pfice
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