Word: niggers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...Governor Faubus' cry that Editor Ashmore was the worst of all possible culprits, "an ardent integrationist." Little Rock's white-supremacist Capital Citizens' Council (annual dues: $5) dubbed Ashmore "Public Enemy No. i." Eagerly abetted by some less scrupulous competitors, a statewide boycott against "that nigger-lovin' paper" had cost the 137-year-old Gazette (circ. 99,573) 3,000 subscribers by week...
...sipped his coffee, made a crinkly face like a rotting pear, and continued his monologue. "You take my country. There's two niggers for every white. That means when you talk about integrating, you're not talking about sending the niggers to the nice white school, like in Little Rock. You're talking about sending whites to a nigger school with nigger teachers. And we just won't go. Maybe in Baltimore, or Little Rock, but not down home...
...gave her a look of triumph, gulped his coffee, and then added more soberly, "But you wouldn't understand. You've never lived down there, and you've never known a nigger the way we know 'em." He rose, held her coat for her, and followed her out into the rain...