Word: brewer
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...Governor Lester Maddox even told schoolchildren not to get on buses that would take them to integrated schools and that "somebody ought to let the air out of them [the tires] and steal them [the buses]." He and Louisiana's John McKeithen, Alabama's Albert Brewer and Mississippi's John Bell Williams met in Mobile, announced that they would go to Washington to try to "save our public schools." The issue is being inflamed by George Wallace, who has been attending anti-integration rallies in his drive to unseat Brewer this year and to reach again...
...five Governors confronting the February deadline, none is more nervous about the political implications of the court order than Alabama's Albert Brewer. Brewer had been a responsible conservative during his first term but now faces a possible primary challenge from George Wallace. The result is that he has turned strident, calling for defiance of the court and saying: "I will tell [local school boards] to resist" the desegregation orders. The pity is that many school boards, businesses, labor unions and parents are struggling, however reluctantly, to accept the law of the land and to prepare for what...
...reaction was swift and predictable. It began with officially sanctioned moves, and was encouraged when Governor Albert Brewer declared full state support for efforts to drive the Muslims out. The state filed several suits seeking to invalidate the Muslim purchase. Farm workers and whites dealing with the Muslims were repeatedly arrested on spurious charges. The tiny Pine Forest Missionary Baptist Church, whose cemetery is surrounded by Muslim land, filed damage suits of $250,000 against the Muslims for trespassing. Unofficial harassment was even worse. Six cows on the farm were shot and killed. Ray Wyatt, the white Pell City automobile...