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Unsung hero of Philadelphia
By BILL MINOR
Wed,05/03/06-11:00PM , 202 Reads
PHILADELPHIA - The word "courage" to describe Florence Mars kept popping up during the celebration of her life in a memorial service here last week. And rightly so.

One celebrant called her a "steel magnolia." But if you have in mind a tall, regal person, that she wasn't.
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Cochran draws national accolades
By BILL MINOR
Wed,04/26/06-11:00PM , 545 Reads
JACKSON - How's this for progress: Sixty years ago Life magazine named Mississippi senior Sen. Theodore Bilbo the worst member of the U.S. Senate. Last week, Time magazine named the state's senior Sen. Thad Cochran one of the 10 best.
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Framing of Kennard unforgivable
By BILL MINOR
Wed,04/19/06-11:00PM , 208 Reads
JACKSON - Well-intended as they may be, such gestures as declaring a "Clyde Kennard Day" don't begin to blot out the deep stain on Mississippi's name left when the state literally crucified the black Korean War veteran from Hattiesburg four decades ago.
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Book looks at paradoxical age
By BILL MINOR
Wed,04/12/06-11:00PM , 149 Reads
JACKSON - In his "Rednecks, Redeemers and Race … Mississippi after Reconstruction, 1877-1917," historian Stephen Cresswell writes about an era that has been completely turned on its head in the 21st century.
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