Word: eastland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...younger brother, Bobby often broods in solitude at his Senate desk, sometimes leaves without trading the customary pleasantries. The more genial Teddy is generally well accepted and is working his way into the Senate "Establishment" by dint of such seemingly inconsequential actions as lingering in Mississippi Senator James O. Eastland's office one morning a few years ago to sip bourbon with him. "Teddy's more casual," says Fred Holborn, a White House aide under J.F.K. "Ask Teddy to put more bite into a speech, and he'll refuse, saying...
...HUAC is almost finished with the Klan, and now I guess it's our turn," the spokesman said. In an issue of the New Left Notes on May 6, he continued, Sen. James O. Eastland (D-Miss.) is quoted as saying that he was going to introduce an anti-subversive bill which would investigate the peace programs, the War on Poverty, SDS, SNCC, the DuBois Club, and the National Coordinating Committee...
...Accusing S.N.C.C. of adopting a "black racist" course, N.A.A.C.P. Executive Director Roy Wilkins adds that it is ominously similar to South Africa's apartheid policy, only turned topsy-turvy. Black power, says Urban League Executive Director Whitney Young Jr., is indistinguishable from the bigotry of "Bilbo, Talmadge and Eastland." Besides, notes Howard University President James Nabrit Jr., currently on leave to serve as U.S. Permanent Deputy Representative to the U.N., "common sense should tell us that 20 million Negroes in a country of 180 million whites need the help of the white majority." And J. H. Jackson, the president...
...Regular Mississippi Democrats, headed by old-line segregationist and four-term Senator James Eastland, 61, overwhelmingly defeated a challenge by the Freedom Democratic Party, whose membership is almost 100% Negro. Though the F.D.P. received only 12% of the primary ballot, the election nonetheless marked the first time since Reconstruction that Negroes voted in significant numbers in Mississippi. Also for the first time, Eastland will face substantial opposition in the general election. Representative Prentiss Walker, a leader of the newly vitalized state G.O.P., has made no bid for the Negro vote; yet many Negroes may vote for him, if only...
...Representative Prentiss L. Walker, 47, the first Republican elected to Congress from Mississippi since Reconstruction, declared that he would oppose Democratic Senator James Eastland, 61, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Walker will have the back ing of Mississippi's small, well-financed, tightly organized Republican organization, is given an outside chance of beating Eastland by giving Mississippians a choice between a "conservative Republican and a double-standard Democrat...