Word: driven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confident that Secretary Benson understands the basic farm problem and its solution, but feel that his comments on the Murrow broadcast were very misleading. Low-income farmers are not being driven off the land by foreclosures when they can sell out at alltime peak prices; they are leaving, as shown in the Murrow telecast, of their own free will, to take their profits on land prices and find more profitable employment. It is through this migration of surplus low-income farmers to more profitable and useful employment . . . that the farm problem of surplus production and low prices will be solved...
...urbanization pattern is familiar. Rising population density lowers the physical standards of the city. The well-to-do residents emigrate to more attractive suburban areas. The tax base decreases, and the tax rate climbs. Industry is driven out by taxes and the environment. Municipal service grows worse, as the need grows greater. Crime and delinquency rates rise, disease increases, and schools become blackboard jungles. In short, the familiar pattern of metropolitan slum living becomes inescapable...
Friday, Feb. 3. Autherine was driven by a Baptist pastor the 60 miles from Birmingham to Tuscaloosa in time for her first class in geography. Before 9 a.m. she walked into Smith Hall, took a seat in the first row. "I was met with hateful stares," she reported later. "As I sat down . . . several students moved away." That night 1,000 students marched on the home of President Oliver Cromwell Carmichael. They sang Dixie, shouted, "To hell with Autherine!" and "Keep 'Bama white!" Another group of mobsters set a Ku Klux-style cross on fire in front of Dean...
Saturday. Autherine attended her one class, went home unmolested. But about 11 p.m. a crowd of students and townspeople once again marched on Carmichael's house, shouted him down when he urged them to disperse. Meanwhile, other hoodlums were at work downtown. They mobbed three cars driven by Negroes; one white student hopped on the roof of a car, jumped up and down until he had mashed it in. Then another cross was fired in the main quadrangle of the campus...
Monday. This, says Autherine, "is a day I'll never want to live through again." She arrived at Smith Hall in a black Cadillac driven by Henry Nathaniel Guinn, Negro owner of a Birmingham finance company. A crowd of 300 had already gathered around the hall, suddenly began to chant "Hey, hey, ho, ho. Autherine must go." At the end of class Dean of Women Sarah L. Healy and Carmichael's assistant, Jefferson Bennett, led Autherine out a back door to a waiting car. The mob spotted them, began throwing eggs and stones as the car sped...