Word: eastlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...James Oliver Eastland, senior U.S. Senator from Mississippi, and spiritual leader of Southern resistance to school desegregation, this was a relatively restrained statement. In less temperate moments, Eastland has trumpeted the traditional Southern creed with a bluntness unsurpassed in the postwar U.S. From the floor of the U.S. Senate he has proclaimed his belief that "the Negro race is an inferior race," and has warned the nation that the white people of Mississippi will "maintain control of our own elections and . . . will protect and maintain white supremacy throughout eternity." He has denounced the Supreme Court decision banning racial segregation...
Thanks to these and countless similar statements, Eastland is today one of the most widely disliked men in the U.S. New York's Senator Herbert Lehman has attacked him in the Senate as "a symbol of racism in America." Sermons have been preached against him in Northern churches and the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of New York has accused Eastland of "subversion just as real and, because it comes from a U.S. Senator, far more dangerous than any perpetrated by the Communist Party." The most frequent charge against him, one that is almost universal among Northern liberals, is that...
...seek action now," cried N.A.A.C.P.'s Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins. "We are here to condemn murderers. We are here to demand redress for victims of cruel dictatorship." N.A.A.C.P.'s Washington director, Clarence Mitchell, added: "Tell those Democrats that if they keep a stinking albatross like Senator Eastland around their necks they can kiss our votes goodbye." Some N.A.A.C.P. delegates felt, however, that such talk did the organization more harm than good in the high-tension atmosphere of today...
...finger or raising his voice to protest this inequality." Scott had a last word for the delegates: "Could you have eaten in Washington restaurants under a Democratic Administration? Could you have even gathered in this fine hotel?" Scott asked sardonically: "When is Mr. Butler's appointment with Senator Eastland?" When Butler got up to reply, the delegates took up a mocking chant: "Eastland, Eastland, Eastland...
...troops to keep order in Mississippi. Virginia's segregationist Democratic Representative Howard W. Smith declined to see the delegates: "A waste of your time and mine." Most dramatic confrontation came when Mississippi's Gus Courts walked into the office of Missis sippi's James O. Eastland. Courts told the Senator how he had been shot, whereupon Eastland shook his head and said: "We don't condone that." Eastland remarked afterwards: "Negroes come up to see me all the time...