Word: eastlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year. Faced with President Truman's veto of the Act just before the last election, over two-thirds of the House and Senate, voted to over-ride. And among those who voted to pass the Act were many Democratic Senators who now control important posts--Johnson, George, Fulbright, Byrd, Eastland--as well as both Knowland and Bridges. If the President puts his full authority behind the changes, however, Congress should accept some, even if not all, the proposals. In the past when the President has fully utilized his popularity--on such issues as Reciprocal Trade and the Bricker Amendment...
...honor in the Township Auditorium sat noted Southern leaders: former Senator, former Supreme Court Justice, former "Assistant President," former Secretary of State, former Governor James Byrnes; South Carolina's two U.S. Senators, Olin Johnston and Strom Thur. mond; and the principal speaker of the evening, Senator James Eastland of Mississippi. A retired Presbyterian minister, L. B. McCord, began the meeting with a prayer: "If we're wrong, enlighten our minds, enlarge our hearts. Help us in our efforts to preserve our race and our country." When a Confederate flag was unfurled from the second-floor balcony, the citizens...
...Senator Eastland, in a speech interrupted 87 times by applause, proposed that the Southern states should set up a regional commission, financed with public funds, to fight the Supreme Court desegregation decision. He noted that the decision outlawed segregation in the schools "solely because of race." He thought that the Southern states could evade the court's order by framing new standards of segregation based on factors other than race, "to promote the public health, raise the academic standards, protect the psychological welfare of the child, prevent violence, promote peaceful and harmonious race relations. This kind of segregation...
...Eastland concluded by charging that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was backed by organizations "of all shades of red ... the blood red of the Communist Party . . . the almost equally red of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A...
...Mississippi, a group of lawyers and legislators, headed by U.S. Senator James Eastland, urged the state to nullify the Supreme Court's decision. Governor-elect J. P. Coleman countered that such action would be nothing less than an "invitation to the Federal Government to send troops into Mississippi." He himself has come out for some sort of "interposition," has hinted that he will make his position clear in his inaugural address this week...