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The old guard of Mississippi's white supremacy has been mindful of threats to unseat the state's delegation to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago if Negroes are excluded from the party. So last week the old guard retreated. For the first time since the 1870s, Mississippi...
The Democratic national leadership hopes to avert a replay of the turmoil at Atlantic City in 1964 when insurgent blacks and white civil rights activists, calling themselves the Mississippi Democratic Freedom Party, invaded the convention floor. Nonetheless, the Negroes' success last week may prove short-lived. Segregationists among more...
Highest Priority. For all the sense of personal loss that pervaded the nation with his death, Martin Luther King's heritage of nonviolence seemed to have endured its architect's demise. Those who predicted that racial pacifism had passed with him were contradicted last week from Harlem to...
Forging the Bloc. At his Masonic Temple rally on Jackson's Lynch Street, Evers adamantly espoused the brighter side, declaring himself ready for another round. Although last week's victory allows Griffin to serve the remainder of Williams' term, he must face the regular Democratic primary contest...
Already Evers has forged the feuding civil rights factions into the largest single bloc of votes in the district. At worst, he has made prophetic the ugly rantings of Theodore Bilbo, who had warned that some day "niggers would be trying to go to Congress." Griffin himself admitted that in...