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...long night in which he and top advisers tried to direct events in distant Mississippi was broken by moments of levity. "I haven't had such an interesting time since the Bay of Pigs," J.F.K. said wryly as he sought to outmaneuver Mississippi's Governor Ross Barnett, who had twice blocked Meredith's registration at the university, inflaming racial tensions over the issue. Kennedy had sent some 500 federal marshals to the Oxford campus to protect Meredith as he arrived, and had federalized units of the National Guard in Mississippi. But the marshals were besieged by angry...
Kennedy sought advice from aides on whether Barnett and retired General Edwin A. Walker, who was stirring up the crowd against Meredith, could be arrested (Walker was). "Imagine that son of a bitch having been commander of a division," Kennedy said. In a series of telephone calls with Barnett, Kennedy firmly rebuffed the Governor's plea to withdraw Meredith from the campus...
...wins of Harold Washington in the Chicago mayoral race and W. Wilson Goode in the Philadelphia Democratic mayoral primary. It may also prove contagious. "When you get a triggering force like the Washington victory, you generate a great deal of dynamism in other cities," says Political Scientist Marguerite Ross Barnett of Columbia University. "It will have an enormous impact on national politics." The moral of these two races, adds Mary Coleman, a political science professor at Jackson State University, is that there is a new reluctance on the part of blacks to "accept business as usual." The campaigns of Washington...
...rapid transitions to large black populations. Many whites were more willing to support a black for Congress or the state legislature than for mayor. "The mayor is the symbol for the entire city, and some whites do find it difficult to invest that kind of leadership in blacks," says Barnett. But in the past few years, black mayoral candidates have fared better in garnering votes in predominantly white areas. "For the first time large segments of ethnic Americans have to live under a black administration and pay deference to black leadership," says Harvard Political Scientist Martin Kilson. "This is something...
...this apathy, then, begs the question: where is the center of Dartmouth life? Is it in fraternities that still provide most of the social life in the tiny New Hampshire town? Is it, as Barnett maintains, on the playing fields and in the libraries? Is it in the handful of students that campaign for changes in the structure of campus life? Or is Dartmouth merely in hibernation after the flareups of the sixties...