Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President Johnson last month told 200 Southern Baptist leaders, "There is no Southern or Northern problem, only an American problem, when it comes to the rights of citizens. The only lasting solution won't cost a cent-but it will be the hardest to achieve." He then said this would require a change in men's hearts-in the way they see and treat their neighbors. No other white leader's remarks and few colored spokesmen have isolated and described so well the deep and festering wound responsible for the outbreaks-namely, the long-ingrained conviction...
...world's most violent advanced country. Among industrialized countries, Canada's homicide rate is 1.3 per 100,000; France's is .8; England's only .7. Within the U.S., the rate typically surges upward from .5 in Vermont to 11.4 in Alabama. In some Northern ghettos, it hits 90, just as it did some years ago in the King murder city of Memphis. Texas, home of the shoot-out and divorce-by-pistol, leads the U.S. with about 1,000 homicides a year, more than 14 other states combined. Houston is the U.S. murder capital...
...defeated white South defeated Reconstruction with a guerrilla war in which the Ku Klux Klan and other whites killed thousands of would-be Negro voters, imposed segregation, and infected the North with the very racism that the Civil War supposedly ended. Over the years, a dozen or more major Northern race riots followed the same pattern: whites invading black neighborhoods and killing scores of Negroes...
...late fifties, when the South was preparing to close down its schools in protest against the 1954 Supreme Court school desegregation decision, McGill's daily front-page columns were avidly read and misread by both Southern racists and Northern liberals. To the grasseaters of rural Georgia he was a "race-mixer" and worse; former governor Eugene Talmadge referred to him as "Rastus McGill." To the liberals he was the South's single beacon of rationality; they were apt to overlook his claim that "this was never a question of being for integration or against...
Whether McGill's New South will somehow escape the miasma of the Northern ghettos, or whether the tentative displays of good faith in Atlanta will harden into cynicism as bigotry yields to black economic stagnaton, remains to be seen. For now, McGill is still testy and hopeful...