Word: niggers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...election, supporters of Alderman Milton McGuire, Zeidler's opponent, published advertisements (later repudiated by McGuire) which declared that Milwaukee was infested with marijuana and liquor-crazed juveniles and that "hoodlum mobs" ranged the city "with wolf-pack viciousness." Despite this and a whispering campaign that labeled him a "nigger lover" (TIME, April 2), Socialist Zeidler last week won his third consecutive term by a majority of 23,000 votes (out of 214,000 cast). But regardless of the voters' verdict, the whispering campaign had been damaging, and the racial tensions it had aroused would continue to haunt Milwaukee...
These charges have been called "shameful" by Alderman Milton J. McGuire, who is Zeidler's opponent in the mayoralty election next week. But McGuire aides have sneered at Zeidler workers for asso ciating with a "nigger lover," and McGuire undoubtedly stands to benefit from the whispering campaign against Zeidler. With some bitterness the mayor links his opponent to the rumors. Says Zeidler: "The rumor is what made possible any candidacy against me. It is one of those things that is very hard to combat. If my opponent leaves any heritage to Milwaukee, whether he wins or loses, it will...
...Come Out, Nigger." As the trial began, Montgomery's firm, plain-spoken Circuit Judge Eugene Carter looked out at Martin Luther King, surrounded by eight lawyers and backed by some 150 Negro spectators, many of them wearing cloth crosses with the words, "Father, forgive them." Prosecutor William Thetford produced evidence that the Montgomery Improvement Association had disbursed about $30,000 for boycott purposes; e.g., drivers in the boycott's 200-car motor pool were paid up to $24 a week...
...have the correct change. Delia Perkins testified that a driver had called her an "ugly black ape." Richard Jordan said his pregnant wife had been forced to give her seat to a white woman. Georgia Teresa Gilmore said when she boarded a bus, the driver shouted, "Come out, nigger, and go in the back door," and when she stepped off, drove away...
...Nigger Jeff tells with blind pity the story of a lynching, which ends with a mother's moans in a darkened cabin and the resolve of a newspaperman...