Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Americans should take a good look at the writing on the wall and stop bickering about local politics, race prejudices, etc., and commence to work as a nation and a team...
...that department asking to be referred to jobs where there are no unions. Of course, you can't get much cooperation from a national union the officers of which are practicing the same sort of larceny on a national scale as is being practiced by their so-called local representatives on a local scale...
...Advancement of Colored People, fearing to bring its members and contributors under increased pressure in emotion-torn Little Rock, refused. Last week the city council ordered the arrest of N.A.A.C.P. Leaders Joseph C. Crenchaw and Daisy Bates. Crenchaw, 74, a Baptist preacher who is president of the local N.A.A.C.P. chapter, gave himself up, was booked and released on $300 bond. Daisy Bates, president of the N.A.A.C.P.'s Arkansas branch, and front-line leader during the crisis at Little Rock's Central High School, was visiting in New York. Asked if she would return to Little Rock-and arrest...
Last week the first of the six, Joe P. Pritchett, 31, Exalted Cyclops of a local chapter of the Klan, stood trial for mayhem in circuit court in Birmingham. After hearing the evidence, an all-Southern, all-white jury deliberated 40 minutes, returned a verdict of guilty. Alabama-born Judge Alta King sentenced him to 20 years' imprisonment-the maximum permissible under Alabama law. "This is one of the worst things ever to come before my bench," said the judge. "I have found nothing in the testimony to justify less than the limit...
...state that ranks 48th in murder should rank so high in self-destruction (about five male suicides for each female, 3½ times as many gunshot deaths as hangings). Some have become rude enough to hypothesize. State Pathologist Richard S. Woodruff blames the suicide rate on three local factors: 1) two centuries of inbreeding, 2) mental depression stimulated by lonely mountains and rugged climate, 3) lack of mental health facilities. State Tax Commissioner Leonard W. Morrison adds a practical fourth cause. Says he of a state where 87% of income tax returns show less than $5,000 income a year...