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MONTGOMERY, Ala.--"By 1970, there will be absolutely, no chance for anybody to be elected here who doesn't counsel moderation," said Attorney General Richmond Flowers in an interview recently...
...maintained his political influence long after his term in office, in 1948 led the Dixiecrat revolt against Harry Truman, and in 1960, as an unpledged member of the electoral college, rejected John Kennedy's election to cast his ballot for Virginia Senator Harry Byrd; of cancer; in Birmingham, Ala...
Maxwell A.F.B., Ala...
...their way home from a civil rights march to downtown Eutaw, Ala., Negro demonstrators kept on the alert for any sign of danger from local whites. And still they were surprised. Suddenly a light plane made a low pass over the road and spewed out a heavy, yellow spray of insecticide. Coughing and gagging, the Negroes stumbled out of the fog with ruined clothing and numbing nausea. In an area noted for ingenious forms of Negro harassment, this was surely one of the most notable. Yet the story ran in only one Southern paper-the weekly Southern Courier...
Ever since it was founded last July, the Courier has been digging out and printing civil rights news that most other Southern papers ignore. Published in Montgomery, Ala., the Courier is the brainchild of Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) workers who went South in the summer of 1964, and soon felt that the local press was either disregarding their work or utterly distorting it. In desperation, two Harvard Crimson staffers-Peter Cummings and Ellen Lake-started mimeographing sheets of news and passing them around. This summer they decided to put out a paper on a permanent, year-round basis...