Word: georgias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Southerner, a recently published book in which he excoriated the stultifying influence of racism on the South, Georgia Congressman Charles Longstreet Weltner warned: "The South can lose again, just as we have lost for the past century. If Jim Crow is our goal, and equal justice our enemy, the South will lose...
Political fortunes sometimes take strange turns; in Georgia, an entire party fabric can rip to shreds in a matter or weeks...
...Georgia's lack of party registration and the absence of a Republican primary hurt Arnall the most. With Callaway unopposed, some 75,000 to 100,000 Republicans were able to vote in the Democratic primary for the supposedly weaker candidate, Maddox...
Save for her piercing blue eyes, Lillian Smith hardly resembled a pioneering crusader for civil rights. Her manner was retiring, her voice soft and small. But her forceful message cut through the Georgia drawl: Jim Crow demeaned and diminished every Southerner, white or black. "Racial segregation has been a strong wall behind which weak egos have hidden for a long time," she wrote in 1951. She castigated Southern Governors who defied the U.S. Supreme Court's order to integrate the schools. As a result, she said, Southern whites "are losing their freedom to do right, to act as their...
...Truth & Love." Lillian Smith was descended from slave-owning Georgia pioneers who fought the Seminoles; she was born and brought up in Jasper, Fla., which could have been Maxwell, the community that she anatomized in Strange Fruit. "We were small-town people who lived in a large, relaxed way," she recalled. After World War I, her father lost his prosperous mills and turpentine stills, moved back to north Georgia to open the state's first private summer camp for young ladies on Old Screamer Mountain outside Clayton...