Word: colemans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was said in answer to a charge by state chairman Coleman L. Bornstein that the proposed platform would only succeed in "parading our dirty wash before the public...
...four years he was one of then Governor Theodore Bilbo's leading supporters in the house of representatives. In 1932, when Bilbo left office under a cloud of financial troubles, Eastland also got out of politics and began to practice law. The same year he married attractive Elizabeth Coleman, daughter of a Delta doctor. Says Libby: "We got engaged in a swing on the front porch, naturally. How else is it done in the South...
...later, at Mississippi State College, Political Scientist William Buchanan decided to resign too. The state house of representatives denounced the two professors as "misguided reformers," urged the heads of all state-supported colleges to "use every effort to prevent subversive influences from infiltrating into our institutions." Governor James P. Coleman agreed. "If a man feels a team is unworthy," he said of the professors, "he ought to get off the team." Other men were also getting off the team. By last week, all five out-of-state speakers had said they would not show up for the university...
...quote Governor Coleman of Mississippi as saying "the white people of Mississippi are not a race of Negro killers. Official figures for 1954 show that in that year eight white people were killed by Negroes, while 182 Negroes were killed by members of their own race." Of what significance and comparative value are these figures? Should you not have stated the number of Negroes killed by whites...
...venerable State Capitol at Richmond, where Robert E. Lee accepted his commission as commander of the rebel Virginia troops, the governors of four Southern states last week proclaimed a pattern of opposition to the Supreme Court of the U.S. Governors Thomas Stanley of Virginia, James Plemon Coleman of Mississippi, Marvin Griffin of Georgia and George Bell Timmerman Jr. of South Carolina jointly declared that the Federal Government had no power to prohibit the segregation of races in the public schools. (North Carolina's Governor Luther Hodges attended as an "observer," did not sign the declaration because his state legislature...