Word: eastlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Southerner was sticking by his racist guns. The private Sidwell Friends School revealed that Mississippi's James O. Eastland had withdrawn his son and daughter. Reason: one little Negro had been taken into kindergarten...
...outlawing segregation in public schools, sociologists warned that race relations in this country were likely to become worse before getting better. The Till murder trial, the riots surrounding Autherine Lucy's attempt to enter the University of Alabama, the mobilization of white citizens' councils, the rantings of Eastland and Talmadge all point to the discouraging conclusion that the sociologists were right. But to say that tensions are rising and that extremists are capturing public attention is not to say there is no hope: the hope must lie with moderates, who can and must speak out, soon...
...week a dogged trio of liberal Democrats-Missouri's Tom Hennings, New York's Herbert Lehman and Illinois' Paul Douglas-urged the Senate to blast the Administration's Civil Rights bill out of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Argued Paul Douglas, while Mississippi's Jim Eastland, Judiciary Committee chairman, chomped on a dead cigar: "If we pierce behind the complex rules and procedures, we know, as men, that the rules of the Senate have been very skillfully devised to prevent any action on civil rights which is obnoxious to the members from the South...
...outlawing segregation in public schools, sociologists warned that race relations in this country were likely to become worse before getting better. The Till murder trial, the riots surrounding Autherine Lucy's attempt to enter the University of Alabama, the mobilization of white citizens' councils, the rantings of Eastland and Talmadge all point to the discouraging conclusion that the sociologists were right. But to say that tensions are rising and that extremists are capturing public attention is not to say there is no hope: the hope must lie with moderates, who can and must speak out, soon...
...supporters, including veteran (eight terms) U.S. Representative Robert L. F. ("Daddy") Sikes, campaigned hard for their candidate as a man the South can trust on the race issue. The locals called in Mississippi's Political Strategist Sam Wilhite, who was a key manager in U.S. Senator James Oliver Eastland's campaign, to help Stevenson's cause; they gave wide circulation to a newspaper editorial that branded Kefauver as a "leftwing integrationist" and a "sycophant" for the Negro vote. As Florida's ex-Governor Millard Caldwell put it with some approval, they sold Stevenson as a "more...