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...President and the Attorney General," rumbled Mississippi's Segregationist Governor Ross Barnett, "have encouraged demonstrations, freedom rides, sit-ins, picketing and actual violation of local laws. Gentlemen, if you pass this civil rights legislation, you are passing it under the threat of mob action and violence on the part of Negro groups and under various types of intimidation from the executive branch of this government...
...pressing for civil rights legislation, raved Barnett, the Kennedy brothers were aiding a "world Communist conspiracy to divide and conquer" the U.S. To prove that the Negro push for equality is linked with Communism, Barnett reached into his briefcase and pulled out a poster issued by the Georgia Commission on Education. In a display reminiscent of the late Joe McCarthy's famed "I-have-here-in-my-hand" performance, Barnett claimed that the picture in the poster showed Negro Leader Martin Luther King Jr. at the "Highlander Folk School for Communist Training, Monteagle, Tenn...
...impossible to feel anything but respect for the honorary doctorates of Ross R. Barnett, Governor of Mississippi. Still, we feel constrained to differ with him on a small point of historical accuracy...
...Barnett's presentation last Friday before the Senate Commerce Committee, in which he unmasked the civil rights movement as a Communist Front, was for the most part unexceptionable. But when asked by Sen. Philip Hart whether a Communist Conspiracy was behind the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1875, he hedged. "I wouldn't say that," he demurred...
...quite unlikely that Barnett will be able to get the courts to go along with him on this one. Mr. Meredith's "inflammatory remarks" consisted of calling for a general boycott of "everything possible" by Mississippi Negroes; he made these remarks in the context of a statement on the death of Medgar Evers, state field secretary of the NAACP. Mr. Meredith was reprimanded by the appropriate Dean and has promised not to do it again. Although it would seem, then, that sufficient disciplinary measures have already been taken, Gov. Barnett apparently is not convinced...