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Since the February riots, Citizens Councils have perfected their organization, and the Ku Klux Klan has even enjoyed a renaissance in Tuscaloosa. These people are a potential danger and a question mark, which will probably make trouble, perhaps even kill, another Autherine Lucy...
Since the February riots, Citizens Councils have perfected their organization, and the Ku Klux Klan has even enjoyed a renaissance in Tuscaloosa. These people are a potential danger and a question mark, which will probably make trouble, perhaps even kill, another Autherine Lucy...
...Senate floor, one member of the club after another rose to pay wholehearted tribute to the colleague who had arrived in 1922, when Vice President Coolidge was presiding. As a moderate from the Deep South, Walter George had fought strenuously for his principles (anti-Ku Klux Klan, pro-Tennessee Valley Authority, anti-Franklin Roosevelt's plan to pack the Supreme Court). Connecticut's Republican Senator Prescott Bush said he hoped that he might some day command the kind of respect that prompted George's wife always to call him "Mr. George." Rolled into the Senate chamber...
...State itself, however, Eastland was born a power to be reckoned with. His maternal grandfather, Dr. Richmond Austin, came from one of the state's most blue-blooded families, and rode as a cavalry officer under General Nathan Bedford Forrest (later one of the founders of the Ku Klux Klan). His paternal grandfather not only made a pile out of a drugstore chain, but also had the foresight to buy, at $1 an acre, 600 acres of cotton land near the hamlet of Doddsville in the Mississippi Delta. Today Delta land fetches up to $200 an acre...
...anti-segregation ruling. Less than a month later, a small group of white citizens of Indianola, Miss., in Eastland's own Sunflower County, founded what they called a Citizens' Council, the first appearance of a movement which Mississippi Editor Hodding Carter describes as "the uptown Ku Klux Klan." Though it lacked-and still does-any kind of interstate organization or direction, the movement rapidly spread through the South. Today Citizens' Councils and similar organizations under other names have an estimated 300,000 members. A few councils have a protofascist tinge; the great majority of them, however...