Word: coleman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHEN the 1952 election was over," said U.S. Chamber of Commerce President John S. Coleman, "many of us told ourselves that we now had a business-minded Administration and a business-minded Congress in Washington. It seemed like a good time to take a rest. But what happened?" Last week in Detroit a "legislative clinic" under Coleman's direction wound up a twelve-city tour designed to convince U.S. businessmen that what happened decidedly does not call for a rest. Disappointed by the Eisenhower Administration's big budget and its failure to cut corporate taxes, federal spending...
...Coleman's mind, the program has just begun to be effective (26,000 new jobs in ten years; annual per-capita income increased to $946), and Mississippi needs more time to effect the changeover -time that will be swept away if the racial crises fireballing through the South reach at last into the state with the highest percentage (45%) of Negro population in the U.S. To win time, J. P. Coleman has set himself as the wedge between White Citizens' Councils and the N.A.A.C.P. "What we need." says Coleman, "is peace and quiet. What happened in Clinton, Tenn...
...Under Coleman there has been no letup in segregation for the Negroes. In the shining new factories, few get better jobs than floor sweeping. Disgruntled, some 25,000 Negroes a year are leaving for opportunities elsewhere. Yet the bulk of an estimated $100 million to be spent on schools in the next five years will be used to bring Negro schools up to white levels. The state grants Negro teachers salaries equal to their white counterparts (but local school boards frequently add discriminatory differentials). Unlike governors in Louisiana. Alabama and Texas, Coleman disapproved of banning the N.A.A.C.P. Says a Mississippi...
Proving the Difference. The roots of Coleman's success as governor are buried in his earlier training. Colemans have farmed in Choctaw County for 122 years; Great-Grandfather Daniel Coleman held 105 taxable slaves, worked 1,725 acres. Introduced to courthouse politics at ten by his grandfather, J.P. was taught at 15 to read the Congressional Record every day. At 17 he enrolled in the University of Mississippi, the first Coleman to attain college since pre-Civil War days. At 17 he was also on the hustings rounding up audiences for Gubernatorial Candidate Martin Conner; at 21 he went...
...term's end Coleman is ineligible to succeed himself. The word in country store and courthouse is that he will run in 1960 against Senator James Eastland, a Delta man for whom Hill-Countryman Coleman holds no particular affection. So far, the governor has not announced such an intention. But if Coleman does make the run, and does, as the odds would indicate, beat Eastland, nothing could better convince the rest of the U.S. that a thoroughly awakened Mississippi knows the difference between an 1890 oxcart and a 1957 Jet plane...