#mississippi

Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage. ↗

— Danny Glover

#almost #becoming #education #freedom #graduated

The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what we're likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.' ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#attorney general #call #clock #evening #general

Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right. ↗

— Steve Harvey

#alabama #carolina #chicago #church #connected

Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#baseball #catch #dad #farm #first

I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays. ↗

— Beth Henley

#grew #i #jackson #mississippi #mother

The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi. ↗

— Beth Henley

#alone #christmas #class #dime #i

I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas. ↗

— Patrick Buchanan

#arkansas #back #bank #come #i

Almost 70 percent of U.S. ag exports travel the upper Mississippi River and the Illinois waterway system. ↗

— Jerry Costello

#exports #illinois #mississippi #mississippi river #percent

I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew. I read magazines, I listened to radio, I watched television. I knew there was something out there, and I wanted a part of it. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#come #east #first #first time #i

If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told. ↗

— Bennie Thompson

#biggest #ever #go #lie #mississippi