Word: anti-negro
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...flyer handed out by the pickets decried the film as "despicable" anti-Negro racist propaganda," and urged that it be banned in Massachusetts. The picket signs read "Offensive to Negro Actress" and "This is Boston--Not Mississippi...
Keating has continually insisted that he does not charge Kennedy with being pro-Nazi, anti-Negro, or anti-Italian; the only thing he claims to question is Kennedy's judgment (and there're his qualifications). Similarly, Keating denies he is actively seeing the backing of any voting bloc and criticizes his opponent for appealing to such groups; yet Keating's bid for bloc support is as plain as the title of one of his campaign throwaways: "Why is Nasser Working to Defeat Keating...
...issue, however, Miller saved himself from the kind of attack that can never be completely countermanded. He announced that the deed to his $60,000 Bethesda, Md., home had been subject to an anti-Negro covenant before he owned it. He bought the house ten years after the Supreme Court's 1948 decision voiding all such clauses. This was entirely different from the situation he had publicized in Austin, Texas, where an anti-Negro clause was inserted in the deed to property Lyndon and Lady Bird sold three years before the Supreme Court decision...
What really happened in these and other situations, Pettigrew maintained, can better be described as an "our-from-under-the-rocks" phenomenon. Anti-Negro candidates for political office in the North often succeed, at least for a time, is attracting to the polls many otherwise "apathetic, alienated, authoritarian, or uninformed" citizens who ordinarily do not vote. This phenomenon is a polarization of existing attitudes, rather than a sudden change as is implied by the term "backlash...
...Boston school committee elections of 1961 and 1963 provide a still better example since the first election serves as a control for the second. An anti-Negro candidate, Mrs. Louise Day Hicks, won both elections, the second time by a much larger percentage than the first while a Negro candidate; Melvin King, lost both of the contests. This vote was widely called a white "backlash," though the "rocks" phenomenon was probably working...