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What was he doing there? Frankly, he was out to harass the Johnson Administration by posing as a serious candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. By moving into Wisconsin's presidential primary fight, he also figured that he might even pick up enough segregationist votes to embarrass Governor (and Democratic favorite son) John Reynolds...
Legal Barbed Wire. Whenever the revival of antique laws has not satisfied segregationists, Southern states and municipalities have reached in the other direction and passed scores of new statutes. Seven states enacted laws against "barratry" (inciting lawsuits) to harass civil rights organizations and their lawyers. When civil rights pickets gathered at the only movie house in Americus one Saturday last July, members of the city council rounded up a quorum, swiftly passed an ordinance declaring that henceforth picketing would be permitted only between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m., that there must be no more than two pickets per city block...
...newly elected countries. Russia's empire is occupied by military force and ruled by fear. By contrast, the British record is one which has freed 600 million people in 15 years. The U.N. members know that to be true, but they seldom condemn the Russians and constantly harass us. Is there growing up, almost imperceptibly, a code of behavior where there is one rule for the bully who deals in fear and another for the democracies, because their stock in trade is reason and compromise...
...economy, which is heavily nationalized and regimented. Sweden, he suggests, should be their model instead. Both Swedish workers and employers have voluntarily formed central organizations for collective bargaining. These groups consider the national interest when they make price and wage agreements, and they have prevented the costly strikes that harass the U.S. economy. The Swedish government follows a strict hands-off policy: it has not even had to set a minimum wage. But Myrdal admits that the voluntarism that works for small Sweden, with a population less than New York City's, may not work for the sprawling...
...walked along an Alabama highway wearing an integration sign, and Mississippi N.A.A.C.P. Leader Medgar Evers, shot in the back outside his home, became martyrs to the cause. Direct-action protests proliferated. There were more "freedom walks" and "freedom marches"-and then came the "freedom calls," in which Negroes harass white city officials by calling them on the telephone, murmuring "Freedom" and hanging...