Word: niggerness
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...Carmichael was caught between those who thought he should have taken a bolder stand for principle and those who blamed him for allowing a Negro to get into the university in the first place. He began to receive anonymous phone calls accusing him of being a "nigger lover." Gradually, his trustees began to turn against him, and the strain became too much...
TUSCALOOSA, Ala.--Nothing could be more "moderate" than admitting one Negro girl to a Southern university of several thousand students. Yet had Autherine J. Lucy remained on the University of Alabama campus last February 6, a mob would probably have murdered her. Angry shouts of "Where's the nigger?" "Get her!" "Kill her!" "Keep 'Bama White" were the answers which moderation received here. Less than one month after she registered, Miss Lucy was expelled from the University by the Board of Trustees. "Moderation" had failed, although in fact the incident was considerably more complex than it appeared on the surface...
...Clinton, Tenn., where Governor Frank Clement dispatched National Guardsmen to quell shouting, stone-throwing rioters, Negroes by week's end were still in mixed classrooms, and the guardsmen were beginning to leave. In western Kentucky armed mobs roamed through the mining towns of Sturgis and Clay, yelling for "nigger blood." But the mob quickly subsided in the face of tank-borne National Guardsmen sent by Governor A. B. ("Happy") Chandler, who declared they would stay there "as long as necessary...
...Those Queer Nigger-Lovers." For years the people of Americus took little notice of "those crazy race mixers." But after the Supreme Court desegregation decision in 1954 there began to be ugly rumors: "Communist spies" were harbored there; "sex mixing" was practiced. When Clarence Jordan endorsed the applications of two Negroes for admission to Georgia State College of Business Administration, things began to happen. There were anonymous phone calls; the roadside signs were ripped down at night; retailers turned down Koinonia produce...
Some people in Americus were shocked. Others said: "I'll bet those queer nigger-lovers did it themselves. We ought to run them out of the county...