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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...
...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...
...Hodding Carter, whose Greenville Delta Democrat-Times (circ. 11,980) delivers courageous coverage in the midst of hostile Mississippi. "We print anything about the controversy locally, regionally or nationally that we can get our hands on," says Editor Carter. Mrs. Carter often gets threatening telephone messages for "that damned nigger-lover husband of yours...
Back in the U.S., Author Baldwin feels that every Negro must "make his own precarious adjustment to the 'nigger' who surrounds him and to the 'nigger' in himself." Says he: "I love America more than any other country in the world, and. exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually." In that criticism, he has not spared his own race, ranging from the failure of Negro novelists to capture in print "any of the joy of Louis Armstrong or the really bottomless, ironic and mocking sadness of Billie Holliday...