Word: bama
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dubious Business? From Alabama's Governor George Wallace to Roman Catholic Bishop Fulton Sheen, a parade of largely anti-court witnesses testified before the committee last week. Ala bama refuses to "order God out of our neighborhood schools," cried Wallace. "We will stand up for God! We will stand up for America!" More constructively, Sheen suggested that no amendment was needed. But he added, "I fear for a country which outlaws prayers in schools." Said he: Let schools be allowed at least to adopt "the prayer that every member is carrying in his pocket -'In God We Trust...
...farce," complained an aide of the Rev. Martin Luther King. And so it was. With the perfunctory trial and hand-slap conviction of three white roughnecks in a city court last week, another empty charade staged by Ala bama's Democratic Governor George Wallace was played...
...running for Governor in 1958, Wallace did not campaign as a diehard defender of segregation, but as a candidate who would work to bolster Ala bama's economy, build better schools and better highways. He was defeated in the Democratic primary by John Patterson (TIME cover, June 2, 1961), who did run on an all-out segregationist plat form. In that defeat Wallace learned a lesson. "They just out-segged me," he said to friends. "They're never going to do that again...
...Negro student ever admitted to the University of Alabama, Autherine Lucy, met with a violent barrage of hate. During her first day of classes, in February 1956, a mob of 1,000 students marched to the university president's house shouting "To hell with Autherine!" and "Keep 'Bama white!" Two days later, rioting students hurled stones and eggs at the car in which she was riding to class, pursued the car to the classroom building. With the mob yelling outside, she waited in the building until state policemen arrived to escort her to safety. She shortly went home...
Gravy Train. Bryant's salesmanship paid off. A steady stream of sturdy stalwarts rode the gravy train to the oak-dotted Tuscaloosa campus, eager to knock heads and - in Bryant's words - "suck up their guts" for dear old 'Bama. Halfback Mike Fracchia (6 ft. 1 in., 186 lbs.) came from Memphis, Tenn., because "I wanted to play on a good team and I knew Coach Bryant was going to turn one out." Among Bryant's first batch of hand-picked recruits were two of Alabama's brightest stars: Quarterback Pat Trammell and Tackle Billy...