Word: eastlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WASHINGTON, April 9--Republican congressional leaders said today they have no "deal" with Southern Democrats to delay action on civil rights legislation for another year. Sen. Eastland (D-Miss.) agreed there is no such arrangement...
...Eastland also announced that the committee will hold public hearings March 18 on Eisenhower's newest nominee to the court, Charles Evans Whittaker, Republican, of Kansas City. The President appointed Whittaker Saturday to take the seat left by the retirement of Justice Stanley Reed...
...term's end Coleman is ineligible to succeed himself. The word in country store and courthouse is that he will run in 1960 against Senator James Eastland, a Delta man for whom Hill-Countryman Coleman holds no particular affection. So far, the governor has not announced such an intention. But if Coleman does make the run, and does, as the odds would indicate, beat Eastland, nothing could better convince the rest of the U.S. that a thoroughly awakened Mississippi knows the difference between an 1890 oxcart and a 1957 Jet plane...
...followers. TIME has recorded this story week by week, and also turned the spotlight on its leaders: on Negro Lawyer Thurgood Marshall (Sept. 19, 1955), who did much to win a major battle for his people before the Supreme Court, and on Mississippi's Senator James O. Eastland (March 26), whose tradition and training have set him against integration every step of the way. This week, in writing of Montgomery's Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., TIME examines a turn in the struggle that neither Lawyer Marshall nor Senator Eastland could have predicted, and measures the effect that...
President Eisenhower has asked Congress to increase the power of the Federal courts and Federal law enforcement agencies to deal with these abuses, and while the House will probably pass such legislation, in the Senate the bills were referred to James O. Eastland's Judiciary Committee. Eastland in turn refered them to the sub-committee on civil rights, but increased that group's membership from three to seven, adding four Senators whose attitude towards such legislation ranges from lukewarm to antagonistic. That sub-committee, in turn, gives every indication of intending to delay action on the bills as long...