Word: anti-negro
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...Anti-Negro Attitude...
...years, has gradually swung from a moderate, internationalist position to that of a diehard conservative. He is generally and initially suspicious of any federal project, unless it happens to benefit his Gulf Coast constituents. He is, of course, a segregationist, but he says he has never made an "anti-Negro" speech. For 20 years he has enjoyed his power on the Rules Committee. There his vote, along with those of Chairman Howard Smith, the courtly Virginia judge, and the four Republican members, could and often did produce a 6-6 deadlock that blocked far-out Democratic-sponsored welfare legislation...
...Test. As for flat "misstatements," Birmingham's leaders deny that the views of John Crommelin, a retired Navy admiral running for the U.S. Senate on an anti-Negro, anti-Semitic platform, have, as Salisbury wrote, "a wider acceptance than many Alabamans will admit." Fact: running in a gubernatorial election in 1958, Extremist Crommelin polled 2,245 out of 681,000 votes...
...calculated it was. The picture was a fake, staged by a squat, bombastic Little Rock haberdasher named James ("Jimmy the Flash") Karam, the man who spurred on anti-Negro mobs for Governor Orval Faubus last fall (TIME, Oct. 7, 1957). Under Karam's direction, a taxicab deposited the Negroes, identified as James Howard and family, near the Hall High School at 8:40 on the morning of the balloting on the issue of segregated v. integrated schools...
...explained that he was merely "following the law as laid down by the Supreme Court. I had no latitude of discretion in expressing views of my own." Adding to his troubles: the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People feared that the North Carolina-born judge would be anti-Negro on the Supreme bench. The combined A.F.L. and N.A.A.C.P. lobbies were :nough to cause what the Washington Post recently called "one of the worst psychological lynchings in which the Senate has ever indulged." Showing no outward rancor, John Parker continued his brilliant service to American jurisprudence, no-ably...