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...Southern Case. More dignified than the extremists is another group of stalwart prosegregation papers typified by the Charleston, S.C. News & Courier (circ. 53,286). It occasionally offends rabid racists by printing constructive news of the Negro community, and its editor, Thomas R. Waring, appeared in Harper's Magazine gently pleading "The Southern Case Against Desegregation...
Braden, a copy editor on the Louisville Courier-Journal from 1950 until five minutes after his conviction, brought the house for Andrew Wade IV, a Negro. He then transferred title to Wade, and a series of threats and cross-burnings ensued. Two months after Wade and his family moved into the home, it was dynamited. An indictment was obtained against a friend of Wade's charging that he blew the house up. This indictment has not been tried, but Braden was tried and convicted of sedition, on charges asserting that he brought the situation about to exploit the segregation issue...
Reading the experts, the Louisville Courier-Journal summed up: "There are some who think their ears to the ground have found certain intelligible rumblings. The great chance is that they are hearing only what they want to hear...
...Among the other charter members: Director Leo Perils of the C.I.O. Community Services Committee; Mrs. Barry Bingham, vice president of the Louisville Courier-Journal and Times; Economist Beardsley Ruml; President John Cowles of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune; Pollster George Gallup; Mrs. Bruce Gould, co-editor of the Ladies' Home Journal; Executive Director Lester Granger of the National Urban League; Pundit Walter Lippmann; Mrs. Eugene Meyer of the Washington Post...
...great deal pleasanter to travel with respectable and well-behaved colored people," said the Charleston, S.C. News and Courier in 1885, "than with unmannerly and ruffianly white men." The doctrine of separate but equal spread outward from the western states of the South, however, until it gained the approval of the Supreme Court, in Plessy v. Ferguson...