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Newspaper
Petal Paper
Location
Petal, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1958
Page
3
This article explains cotton as a major livelihood, its role as king cotton, and its wide use from fabric to paper. It covers cotton’s classification in the mallow family, upland cotton biology, root and stem structure, leaves and flowers, and boll fruit, emphasizing fiber and seed value. It notes cotton’s farming cycles, plant parts, and pollination leading to fibered seeds.
Mississippi now has 107000 manufacturing workers earning nearly 350 million dollars annually. In many counties manufacturing dominates personal income. Between 1939 and 1955 manufacturing employment rose 76 percent, underscoring a strong statewide trend with autos, steel, chemicals, cement, and tile industries expanding in Aberdeen Jackson Coast Delta Vicksburg Cleveland.
The text discusses the Tenth and Fourteenth Amendments, noting that state control over education does not override federal protections. It cites the federal power to safeguard individual liberties and questions whether "separate but equal" truly protects rights, referencing how the Supreme Court struck down segregation under equal protection.
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