Word: bogalusa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite federal court rulings that race must not be a consideration in promotions, assignments or seniority, the United Papermakers angrily threatened to strike Crown Zellerbach's plant at Bogalusa, La., after the company agreed to end discrimination. After a lengthy legal battle, five New Jersey locals of the International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers agreed for the first time in 1966 to admit Negroes into apprenticeship training. Today, only a handful of blacks have broken into the locals...
...desegregated New Orleans schools in 1961. With devastating dignity, Florida's Judge Bryan Simpson quashed bloody disorders in St. Augustine in 1964. By holding Bogalusa's do-nothing police in contempt, Louisiana's Judge Herbert Christenberry prevented a bloodletting among rights workers in 1965. Even rigidly segregated Plaquemines Parish fell to Christenberry's school-integration order in 1966, and Mississippi's foot-dragging Judge Cox now concedes that "segregation is completely out the window...
...bellicose attitude that he projects in public. His Deacons are merely a deterrent force to scare off racists who are hunting for trouble. Sim's aim is simply to keep the Klan out of Negro neighborhoods, and in this he succeeds. He has created a Cold War atmosphere in Bogalusa. No gunfights, no midnight raids, only sitting and waiting...
...would be wrong to say that the snarl is only a pose. Sims actually is a little bit sour on the world. "We might not have organized the Deacons if Katzenbach had sent troops to Bogalusa when they were needed," Sims told Wednesday's press audience. "There's gotta...
Charles Sims, president of the Bogalusa, La., Deacons for Defense and Justice, wowed 150 attentive listeners at 2 Divinity Ave. last night with an hour of anecdotes about his secret organization and some hammy showmanship...