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...Unfortunately, even tragically, the supreme court decision has set in motion some of the evil forces and evil actions which are too reminiscent of our dark est days. Councils have sprung up throughout the South that are, despite the feelings of their respectable sponsors, nothing more than uptown Ku Klux Klans, using instead of tar and feathers and the lash the equally destructive economic pressure. They say they are dedicated to the idea of defeating desegregation "by means short of violence." But already the spirit of violence has manifested itself...
...with hateful stares," she reported later. "As I sat down . . . several students moved away." That night 1,000 students marched on the home of President Oliver Cromwell Carmichael. They sang Dixie, shouted, "To hell with Autherine!" and "Keep 'Bama white!" Another group of mobsters set a Ku Klux-style cross on fire in front of Dean William Adams' house...
...Other Side. The measure of the Southern press was taken last week by Jere Moore, editor of Georgia's Milledgeville weekly Union Recorder, who once routed the Ku Klux Klan in a local battle. Said Moore: "The newspapers of the South have failed to take the leadership demanded of them in this issue. They have been weak-kneed when they should have been strong. We have not tackled the issue...
...newsman, presently out of prison on bail, will look at the segregation problem through a specific incident. It 1954, Braden bought a house in a white residential section, which he promptly resold to a Negro war veteran, Andrew Wade. The Wades were terrorized in subsequent months by the Ku Klux Klan. The violence culminated in June, 1954, when their house was destroyed by a dynamite explosion...
...because of the disparity that exists between the races in the area of health, morality and culture." The Rev. Claude J. Stallworth, principal of the school, promptly condemned the resolution as representative of "a movement which is as unAmerican, un-Catholic and un-Christian as Nazism, Fascism, Ku Klux Klanism or Communism." And besides, he said, he knew of no plans to integrate Jesuit High...