Word: locally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jerusalem community in Hale County is a fairly typical black town. New Jerusalem is not on any of the road maps, and it is a distinct mistake to ask local gas station owners how to get there ("Why you wonna go see them niggers boy?"). Most white visitors who find themselves in New Jerusalem are there by accident, having strayed off Country Road 21 on the way to Greensboro from Akron. The only white faces that appear regularly in the town are those of county sheriffs, looking for moonshine liquor...
...through the rural "niggertowns" finding people who had been denied the Food Stamps and welfare they were entitled to, by discriminatory white officials. Constantly aware that their work had to continue beyond the summer that the Northern students working for SRRP could spend in Alabama, SRRP tried to build local welfare rights organizations to carry on the fight against the white officials...
...hold out against the Northern press and its hated film clips of marchers being gassed. The police knew that they could beat SRRP by leaving it alone; SRRP was beaten. The 20,000 pounds didn't last long, and without national press coverage, SRRP returned to its old local tactics...
...chance for the factionalized liberal chronic minority to take over the party in primary elections. Blacks and browns have excercised little voting power in the past, though in a new coalition with the white liberals here is hope that this can be changed by registration drives and progressive local candidates. This group, the Texas Democratic Coalition, primarily McCarthyite, is setting up a parallel party structure across the state. Other liberals are actively working for the GOP gubernatorial nominee, setting up the New Texas Party with a McCarthy-Lindsay ticket, and working to keep the only important liberal in office when...
...Ridge. They developed strong ties with black moderates and militants; the Negro power structure, while sympathetic, is still aligned with the old guard machine led at this time by Gov. Buford Ellington. With constant work liberals can have a serious influence on the party stance and elect progressive local and legislative officers...