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Chomping on a long black cigar in an amber holder, stubby, silver-haired Leander Perez, segregationist boss of Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish, gave the Senate Judiciary Committee the lowdown on what Negroes are really like. "They are of immoral character," drawled the Democratic politician. Their only interest is "to get welfare checks," he said. "They are a low type of citizenship...
When the 1964 Civil Rights Act empowered the Government to stop aid to school administrations refusing to sign a desegregation pledge, many Southerners were talking as truculently as Louisiana Politician Leander Perez. "Our children are not for sale for any filthy, tainted federal bribes," he said. But the defiance will cost his Plaquemine Parish some $200,000 this year, and there are by now few other Southern areas willing to give up that kind of money. With the pledge deadline coming up on March 3, the rights act is rapidly imposing the desegregation that 75% of the South...
...brief biographical note, the committee noted that King "follows the principle of nonviolence." There were, of course, outraged howls from the U.S.'s Deep South. "They're scraping the bottom of the barrel," cried Birmingham's former Public Safety Commissioner "Bull" Connor. Said Leander Perez, long a Democratic spokesman for Louisiana segregationists: "That only shows the Communist influence. Shame on somebody...
Divided Loyalty. Cheever obviously was torn. Mother was worthy, but father was a character. Like Leander, he kept a journal, and his style is Leander...
...style. "He was a great storyteller and a great guy with the dolls," says Fred. "He didn't drown, as John has Leander doing in the book. He died sitting in a wing chair with a cup of tea by his side. We think he may have had a girl there with...