Word: integrationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yet for all his obviously weird ways, Beckwith still has his defenders in Greenwood. A local fund drive is under way to pay his legal expenses. Declares a Greenwood businessman: "I say the shooting of Evers was a patriotic act. If Delay pulled the trigger that night, he must have...
In Washington, the Pentagon announced that after 15 years of efforts, discrimination finally has been eliminated from the Armed Forces reserves. A drive to eliminate discrimination from National Guard outfits by "persuasion" has led to integration of nearly all such state units as well-except in ten Southern states where...
BOSTON. More than 3,000 chanting Negroes and whites gathered on Boston Common to hear Negro speakers eulogize murdered Integration Leader Medgar Evers. Democratic Governor Endicott Peabody, who decreed "Medgar Evers Memorial Day," gave state employees two hours off to attend the rally.
The headlines out of the troubled South are dominated by the politicians and demonstrators, but it is often the businessmen who are quietly negotiating the solutions or the compromises. The Southern businessman is wrestling with a crisis of conscience; his emotions say "never" to integration, his civil instincts say "perhaps...
Integration demonstrations, and redneck resistance to them, are alike bad for business. Sales of Birmingham's downtown stores dropped 10% when Negroes began boycotts and picketing, fell another 15% when the city brought out the fire hoses and police dogs. Birmingham's pass-through tourist trade is off...