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...audiences in his January State of the Union address and the subsequent announcement of his candidacy for reelection. In his speech to the Evangelicals last week, Reagan said, "Hasn't something gone haywire when this great Constitution of ours is invoked to allow Nazis and Ku Klux Klansmen to march on public property and urge the extermination of Jews and the subjugation of blacks, but it supposedly prevents our children from Bible study or the saying of a simple prayer in their schools...
...Disruption is not free speech. Disruption is not a "right." One has rights (and protections thereof) only to the extent that one is also willing to grant the same rights to others. (If this were a "southern university" of 30 years ago and Klansmen were disrupting a speech of Blacks or Communists, would these individuals "defend" their rights...
...state of mind. "Selma," says a guidebook on Alabama, "is like an old-fashioned gentlewoman, proud and patrician, but never unfriendly." But the symbol of Selma is Sheriff James Clark, 43, a bullyboy segregationist who leads a club-swinging, mounted posse of deputy volunteers, many of them Ku Klux Klansmen. It was in Selma, four years ago, that the Federal Government filed its first voting-rights suit, but court processes are slow, and Selma Negroes remain unregistered...
...unique culture--not necessarily racist--for many established white Southern families. But the reaction to the Black protests by the white students has been blatantly reprehensible. Crank phone calls and death threats to Black student leaders, as well as a "Save the Flag" rally attended by robed Ku Klux Klansmen (seven pictures of which the yearbook printed) indicate the underlying prejudicial hatred still at oxford, Miss...
...demonstration Saturday will include "a small contingent of robed Klansmen who will infiltrate the crowd," said Klan chief Bill Wilkinson. "If the police can't provide us security, we'll provide our own security...