Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aside from his accent and the numerous homey aphorisms scattered through his speech ("You got to get people together so they don't spit at each other on the sidewalk"), Charles Morgan Jr. doesn't sound like a Southern sheriff. First, he doesn't know the meaning of the word "drawl"--he talks non-stop, the words tumbling out of his mouth...
Second, and more important, his words aren't those of a Sheriff Rainey--or of any other segregationist. For Chuck Morgan is a member of that close-knit band of rebels called Southern liberals who periodically speak their minds--and shatter the peace and quiet of the Southern way of life...
...Morgan was practicing law in 1963 in Birmingham when his time to speak came. That spring, Martin Luther King led a series of demonstrations in the city's streets. In September the Birmingham schools were desegregated. Two weeks later a bomb shattered a Negro church, killing four little girls. The next day, Charles Morgan Jr. rose to address the Young Men's Business Club of Birmingham...
...hell," Morgan recalls. "I made a speech I'd written that morning. When I got through, everyone applauded, and someone moved to admit a Negro to membership in the club. Like everything else in Birmingham, it died for want of a second...
Hodding Carter III, associate editor of the racially liberal Delta Democrat Times of Greenville, Miss., and a Nieman Fellow, will speak at 5 p.m. today in Cabot Hall. His topic will be "The South: What Now?" At 3:30 p.m. in the Leverett House Old Library, Charles Morgan Jr. an official of the American Civil Liberties Union, will speak on "Operation Southern Justice...