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Cried he: "Big Jim is going to furnish the leadership. We're going forward. If you want to go, I'll take you.'' James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom...
Governor of Alabama from 1947 to 1951 and from 1955 to 1959, was trying for a political comeback-and everyone thought he would make it. His campaign message was one of moderation on Alabama's most controversial question. "The Civil War is over!" Folsom orated. "Let us join the people together again. Let us furnish leadership for our colored people. You were raised amongst 'em. Go down in the black belt and the white folks talk more like the Negroes than the Negroes do. Their two colleges aren't even accredited. They've just got eight...
Time to Talk. Many merchants favored negotiations and a possible loosening of the city's strict segregation ordinances. Said the segregationist Birmingham News: "It is time for Birmingham citizens to sit down and talk together." But Connor, running for Governor against popular "Kissin' Jim" Folsom and five other Democrats, is not about to sit down and talk. In retaliation for the boycott, the City Commission cut off city relief payments, most of which go to Negroes; Connor denied a routine permit for a long-planned, house-to-house collection for Miles's rundown library...
Into Alabama's political ring once again went the wool hat of James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, 53, a favorite to win the Democratic gubernatorial primary-and with it an unprecedented third term in a state where the Governor cannot succeed himself. After idling away his latest interregnum selling insurance in the hinterlands, 6-ft. 8-in. Folsom faced only one real stumbling block: a redneck notion that he is soft on segregation because he once sipped Scotch with Harlem Congressman Adam Clayton Powell in the executive mansion...
...between Siberia and Alaska at the Bering Strait. Anthropologists have long agreed that this intercontinental bridge-which vanished when the glaciers melted-was crossed by the earliest known North American settlers, who moved far down the continent in search of game (stone spearheads 100 centuries old were unearthed in Folsom, N. Mex., in 1926). Last week, to the existing evidence of the ice-age migration from Asia, a Columbia University anthropologist added an important new find: the oldest Alaskan campsite yet found on the Paleo-Indians' way south...