Posts Tagged ‘Mississippi’
James Meredith: in 1962 he forced President JFK to confront bigotry (photos)
FLASHBACK to December 19 1962: A dead raccoon was placed atop the car of James Meredith. His effigy was hanged. On 1 October, 1962 James Meredith enrolled as the first African American student at the segregated University of Mississippi in Oxford. White students rioted. President JF Kennedy called up the National Guard. Two people died. James Meredith was 28. He had forced the President to act. But it was not enough. In 1966, he marched to encourage blacks to vote. On the march he was hit by a sniper’s bullet. He says he remains at war with the system not the people. Barack Obama, he says, might not be white, but he was voted in by the same people who voted for all previous Presidents. Nothing has changed, he says. But he wants it to. Vote now. Vote often…
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A Mississippi Highway Patrolman gestures with his thumb as he orders the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, right, and other marchers from the pavement of U.S. 51 near Hernando on June 7, 1966. When the marchers continued on the pavement, police shoved them to the side of the road. The Rev. Dr. King and others were continuing a march begun by James Meredith. (AP Photo)
Posted: 2nd, November 2012 | In: Flashback | Comment (1)
The most hardcore pawn shop in Mississippi
DYNAMIC pawn “for a new breed of pawn shop”. Just look for the big balls in Mississippi:
Posted: 9th, October 2012 | In: Money, The Consumer | Comment
Woman Aiming To Shoot Puppy Kills Husband
YOU heard about the man testing bullets on his wife. You heard about the man who shot his wife when aiming at a pig.
Time, then , to meet Betty Walker who took aim at a pit bull puppy named Cocaine that was threatening her children and ended up shooting and killing her husband.
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Posted: 18th, July 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Woman Shot Through Head Makes Police Tea
TAMMY Sexton was shot in the head. She survived. And when the police arrived she made herself tea and offered the cops something to drink.
Tammy Sexton, 47 went to hospital for three days after being shot by her husband, Donald Ray Sexton, who then killed himself.
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Posted: 18th, April 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
