Word: archsegregationist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, Millionaire Fulbright had been so unworried by the outcome that he spent little for newspaper ads or TV time. Archsegregationist Jim Johnson, a two-time loser for the governorship and Fulbright's most visible foe, proved as inept as he was intemperate. Running against Fulbright's opposition to the Viet Nam war, Johnson branded the Senator a traitor and a coward. So virulent was Johnson's campaign that Arkansas Negroes, though well aware that Fulbright has never voted for a major civil rights bill, had nowhere else...
...Washington for action. There was little indication, however, that either the President or the Congress-which is becoming known as the "negative 90th"-was of a mind to propose any major attempt to improve the lot of the slum dweller. Under the chair manship of Mississippi's archsegregationist James Eastland, the Senate Judiciary Committee continued hearings on the causes of the disturbances, as it considered a House-passed antiriot bill, doing nothing to assuage critics' fears that it was more concerned with repressing slum violence than averting it. The committee called on Leonard Kowalewski, a Newark turnkey...
Daddy-Bird & Bobby-Sox. Consider former Governor Ross Barnett, 69, an archsegregationist who wants his job back. He urges listeners to read Theodore Bilbo's Separation or Mongrelization of the Races-Take Your Choice, insists that "the South has been right all along," and twits Congressman John Bell Williams, a formidable rival, for playing footsie in Washington with "Daddy-Bird Johnson and Bobby-Sox Kennedy." But he also acknowledges that "the law must be obeyed, and advances made in the state's economy and educational program...
...factors in the appointment of Bobby Kennedy as U.S. Attorney General. As a tough political negotiator beholden to no Democratic faction, he might be able to placate both House Judiciary Committee Chairman Celler, an all-out liberal, and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman James Eastland, an archsegregationist from Mississippi, in the filling of the new federal judgeships...