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...George Wallace was invading the North, Michigan's Governor George Romney, who also sees himself as a presidential candidate in 1968, was sounding out Republicans in the South -landing a few well-placed jabs at the itinerant Alabamian in the process. Speaking in Little Rock, Ark., to some 2,500 members of Governor Winthrop Rockefeller's husky new G.O.P., Romney emphasized the "vital importance" of the South's growing two-party system, and derided Wallace's talk of a third party as "tilting at windmills...
Unable to erase the U.S. Constitution, Alabama racists would love to erase the Alabamian who tirelessly enforces it-U.S. District Judge Frank M. Johnson. Last month Johnson signed an order for complete desegregation of all Alabama public schools next fall, the first such statewide decree in history. Last week unknown persons counterattacked not Johnson but his 69-year-old mother. As Mrs. Johnson watched TV alone in her Montgomery house, a bomb blasted her garden, shattering windows, ripping off a door, scattering books and furniture everywhere...
Alabama's white politicians do not underestimate the Negro's new force in politics. For the first time in memory, no Alabamian candidate cut loose in 1966 with the sterile race baiting that has studded political rhetoric in the South since Reconstruction. The new tone was heralded by Wallace's painful struggle to enunciate the word Negro, as prescribed by Webster's: not once in the campaign did he refer publicly to the "nigra...
...sallow malaprop from Tuscaloosa apparently infected Republican Committee Member John Buchanan, a fellow Alabamian, who in one felicitous tongue-trip referred to Shelton as the "inferior lizard." During the fruitless questioning of James R. Jones, 37, the Klan's Grand Dragon of North Carolina, his attorney explained that Jones was having trouble understanding the questions because "he does not have a high-school education." Virginia's Grand Dragon, Robert Kornegay, 37, would not even admit that he was a U.S. citizen. The request that most clearly affronted Shelton and his reluctant dragons was the Congressmen's repeated...
Moreover, he declared, an Alabamian would "make just as good a President-and maybe a little better-as someone from New York and maybe even from Texas." And who in all Alabama is best fitted for that role? Of course...