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...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...
...covers Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia and Florida, and handles much civil rights litigation. Mississippi is the only state not currently represented on the court. Custom dictated that Johnson pick a Mississippian, and ironbound Senate tradition demanded that his choice be approved by the state's Senators-James Eastland, who happens to be chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and John Stennis. Given all the circumstances, Coleman seemed to be the best available...
Approval Ahead. It was a foregone conclusion that the three-man subcommittee, consisting of Eastland, Sam Ervin of North Carolina and Roman Hruska of Nebraska, would act favorably on the nomination. It did. Liberal members of the parent committee forced a delay of a vote by the full committee until this week, but there seemed to be little doubt that it would recommend Senate approval...