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...memory Martin King has had a strong aversion to violence in all its forms. The school bully walloped him; Martin did not fight back. His younger brother flailed away at him; Martin stood and took it. A white woman in a store slapped him, crying, "You're the nigger who stepped on my foot." Martin said nothing. Cowardice? If so, it would come as a surprise to Montgomery, where Martin Luther King has unflinchingly faced the possibility of violent death for months...
...addiction and all its byproducts may now be freely depicted, but only if damned on all counts. ¶ Bigotry and Prejudice. Miscegenation may now be handled discreetly, but anything inciting hatred among peoples is taboo. To be "avoided": the use of the words "chink, dago, frog, greaser, hunkie, kike, nigger, spik...
Turner led the nervously smiling children through a gauntlet of epithets ("nigger-lovin' son of a bitch") to the school, left them there, headed back through town. Suddenly his way was blocked by three husky men. One grabbed him. He twisted, ran headlong into another, broke away, dodged across the street and was caught again, just a few yards from one of Clinton's two polling places. Under a storm of fists, Turner fell back against a car that was soon smeared with his blood. Then he went all the way down. Others, including two hysterical women, joined...
...against integration. The Citizens' Council put up its own candidate for mayor, organized a junior auxiliary in the high school. States' rights stickers began to turn up everywhere. White students appeared in class with Confederate flags sewn on their sweaters. They cried ''Nigger bitches'' and "Dirty nigger whore" at the Negro coeds. They threw eggs and stones, poured ink over the Negroes' books and into their lockers. Whenever their enthusiasm failed, members of the White Citizens' Council were ready to keep the trouble brewing...
...cautious processes of Virginia have become confused and troubled. Says Fletcher Dozier, grizzled Negro waiter in Norfolk's Commodore Maury Hotel: "I've lived here most of my life. I always liked the white people and I think they liked me. I wasn't called a nigger until I was 26 years old-and that was by a Canadian woman in Boston. But after a thing like this Supreme Court decision, you get to know who are your friends and who aren't. Now I see the way some fellow is acting...