Word: antebellum
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CHARLESTON, S.C., is a city of antebellum mansions with brass knockers, walled gardens and wrought-iron gates. In spring, the stately peninsula city with its long sense of history is a snug, unharried haven for tourists. Charleston's generally docile Negroes and unpugnacious labor unions have blended well into the Old South texture. But this spring the blacks and the unions have both begun to change, and with them, Charleston...
...laws of its state. Graduates dominate the state Supreme Court, state bar and make up a quarter of the legislature. Few out-of-state professors ever strayed to Ole Miss until early in the civil rights movement, and then a couple of events almost knocked it loose from its antebellum attitudes...
...number of writers will get double exposure. Marshall McLuhan will retard his predicted disappearance of books by publishing a consideration of space in poetry and painting, and a sequel to his picture treatise, The Medium is the Massage. MacKinley Kantor has a book of reminiscences and an antebellum novel about a Southern girl who falls in love with a slave with the unlikely name of Beauty Beast. Stephen Birmingham will issue separate reports on white Anglo-Saxon Protestants and Sephardic Jews, Barnaby Conrad a memoir and a how-to-do-it on bullfighting, Muriel Spark poems and stories, Tom Wolfe...
Marshall's chief inquisitor was South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, who posed 60 fine-print Constitutional questions. At one point, when asked about antebellum slave codes, Marshall lightened things by replying: "The so-called black codes ranged from a newly freed Negro not being able to own property or vote to a statute that prevented these Negroes from flying kites...
...Negro, discrimination begins at home. From the antebellum caste system, under which house slaves were considered superior to field hands, to the lingering feeling that a light-skinned Negro is higher on the social scale than a darker one, Negroes have traditionally suffered from their own, as well as the white man's, prejudices. The isolation of most affluent Negroes from the civil rights struggle has been part of the same pattern...