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...amendments proposed to the U.S. Constitution. It handles civil rights matters. Last week, after the death of Chairman Harley Kilgore, the chairmanship of the Judiciary Committee went to a man considered by many to be the nation's most dangerous demagogue: Mississippi's racist Senator James Eastland...
...Senate speech after the Supreme Court's desegregation decision, Eastland said that the Supreme Court "has been indoctrinated and brainwashed by left-wing pressure groups." Speaking last January to members of the White Citizens' Councils in Columbia, S.C., he said that the Justices of the Supreme Court in the segregation decision had "prostituted both the letter and the spirit of the U.S. Constitution." The groups working toward improved civil rights "run from the blood Red of the Communist Party to the almost equally Red of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A...
...their civil rights, their right to be free and to share fully in the bounties of civilization . . . I must in candor say that the N.A.A.C.P. is vulnerable to attack. It is not one of my favorite organizations. It is as radical on its side as [Mississippi's] Senator Eastland is on his. By trying to hurry too fast, it could violate the spirit if not the word of the Supreme Court decision quite as grossly as Senator Eastland in trying to defeat it. It is contributing nothing toward a calm and rational working out of a very difficult situation...
Next fall, announced Washington's Sidwell Friends School, "a limited number of qualified Negro students" will be admitted to the school's kindergarten. Among the students now attending all-white Sidwell: three children of Mississippi's arch-segregationist Senator James O. Eastland, loudest voice of the bias-bawling white Citizens' Council. On hearing the news. Mrs. Elizabeth Eastland gulped: "It comes as a surprise." Affably drawled Jim Eastland: "No comment." The Senator's consolation, if he decides to let his children stay at Sidwell: unless his kiddies flunk several grades, or some of the late...
Howard said he was disturbed by Northern complacency and especially "these people who sit in segregated churches feeling virtuous." People like Mississippi's Senator Eastland are as subversive as any communist and should be treated as severely, he stated...