Mississippi: A New Note or Two

With only a week to go in the campaign for Mississippi's Democratic gubernatorial nomination, most of the seven candidates are working over the usual villains—the Supreme Court, the Federal Government generally, New York City, "uppity niggers," etc. But some new notes have also been heard.

Daddy-Bird & Bobby-Sox. Consider former Governor Ross Barnett, 69, an archsegregationist who wants his job back. He urges listeners to read Theodore Bilbo's Separation or Mongrelization of the Races—Take Your Choice, insists that "the South has been right all along," and twits Congressman John Bell Williams, a...

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