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...damns-for its outspoken, Southern-liberal editorials on the region's big story: racial integration. Over the years the Daily Times has taken the most forthright stand of any major Southern daily in favor of gradual, peaceful integration under the law of the land. Often scorned as "that nigger-lovin' sheet," the Daily Times has paid a price for speaking its mind: during the past eight years, circulation has dropped by some...
Little Rock's segregationists called it "that nigger-lovin' paper," and the local Citizens' Council labeled Editor Harry Ashmore "Public Enemy No. 1." But last week the Pulitzer Prize committee gave Little Rock's Arkansas Gazette and Editor Ashmore an unprecedented double prize for the role they played in last fall's crisis of conscience brought on by Governor Orval Faubus' defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court's integration order. Ashmore was cited for his editorials, the Gazette "for demonstrating the highest qualities of civic leadership, journalistic responsibility and moral courage...
...illegal because it was under duress." But no one around town really thinks that Schoolmistress Baskin will ever teach in Lakeland again. "What is my crime?" she once demanded of a school-board member. "Not a thing," said that worthy, "except you put a white boy on a nigger bus, and a lot of folks don't like...
...lonely road in Alabama, took him to a deserted shack, castrated him with a razor blade, poured turpentine into the wound (TIME, Sept. 16). Six members of the Ku Klux Klan were arrested by Alabama police and charged with mayhem. One of the men explained: "We just wanted some nigger at random...
...facilities" for "underprivileged persons." But in their hilarity, the Georgians could not help blurting out the real purpose. Drawled mustachioed Alpha A. ("Alfalfa") Fowler Jr., 37, Georgia state legislator and A.R.F. president: "What we're lookin' for is the bluegum, stinkin' scum of the earth, the niggers with common-law wives and passels of little black bastards." Back home in Georgia, an A.R.F. cofounder, pudgy, rednecked Politico Roy Harris, was equally frank. Vowed Harris, often called the "kingmaker" of Georgia politics: "We're goin' to buy the houses next door to Hubert Humphrey and Dick...