Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is little doubt that the "emotionalism" of the NAACP has aggravated the guilty pride of the Southerner, and in publicizing the Till case the NAACP set out to provoke aggravation. For, as Mr. Halberstam says, "there is a double standard of justice in Mississippi, one for Negroes, the other for whites. On the assumption that the evidence clearly pointed to Milam and Bryant as the kidnappers and murderers of Emmett Till, the group sought to focus national and world attention on the small Southern courtroom. The state attorney general had brought the defendants to trial, but this conscientious action...
...last Thursday's press conference, however, indicate that he was really more interested in accusing the Russians of stirring up "hatred and prejudice" than in actually creating "a spirit of calm." The emphasis in all his statements is on censuring the Russians for attempting to play upon Indian national pride. It would seem that if Dulles actually intended to create an atmosphere of peace, he would have left the Russians out of the case entirely...
...guessed were in all of motorized America! We've been getting quite a pile of mail, after you mentioned us in the Oct. 31 issue. Some of our correspondents are home-town lovers, inviting us to include their homes on our itinerary so they may communicate their local pride...
...ironic and mocking sadness of Billie Holliday" to the viciousness of anti-Semitism in Harlem. As for the future of black-white relations in the U.S.: "One's only got to look back to see that, though we certainly have cause for shame, we have, equally, cause for pride...
Living in degrading poverty, with no hope for social or economic advancement, it is small wonder that the Mississippi Negro has little pride or ambition. The most ambitious ones go North (lending some justification to the classic Southern cliche, "You never see an unhappy one"), but it is amazing that more do not. Part of the answer, of course, lies in their family ties here...