Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...without consulting the Governor. As one state representative notes, "six of the ten people who brought it off were 'reapportionment legislators.'" Last week the Tennessee legislature passed the state's first civil rights bill since Reconstruction-a low-pressure measure setting up a commission to promote racial harmony-and opened the way for such dry cities as Nashville and Memphis to vote on the sale of liquor by the drink. This week it is expected to repeal the old "monkey law" that prohibits the teaching of evolution. Alabama has redistributed gas-tax funds and other revenues, increasing...
...their attempts to resist the federal drive toward school desegregation, Southern officials have found a ready whipping boy in U.S. Education Com missioner Harold Howe II. Though Howe has strictly followed the dictates of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, his zeal in implementing racial guidelines in the Deep South has fostered the belief among Southern Congressmen that he has discriminated against their districts while ignoring similar imbalances in Northern cities. Last week, in an obvious horse trade aimed at rallying reluctant Southern support for its hard-pressed $3.5 billion school-aid bill, the Johnson Administration transferred civil rights enforcement powers...
...Mexican people are not only "Catholic inspired," but also hampered by poverty and lack of information. "Tawdry taco joints" are everywhere in Southern California. The comment about "ebullient oles and accurately hurled wine bottles" stretches literary license. The word cholo is pejorative and equivalent to "nigger," "kike" and other racial epithets. Pocho is also derogatory, and so are pachuco, gringo-landia, and agringado...
...questions for '68 is how many Southern states Wallace might carry. In 1948, with a lower threshold of racial tension in the South and a campaign style considerably less zestful than Wallace's, Senator Strom Thurmond captured four states and 39 electoral votes for the Dixiecrats, posing a real threat to Harry Truman. Mindful of the defections to Thurmond, Vice President Hubert Humphrey has for months been playing Johnson's John Alden to Southern Democratic Gov ernors-most recently and notably with Georgia's Lester Maddox-to preclude any repetition of 1948 or, for that matter...
...actual impact of this potential vote remains to be seen, a third-party bid could keep many Southern Negroes at home on Election Day by stimulating K.K.K.-type intimidation, or encourage them to vote for extremist black parties. In any event, a Wallace campaign seems certain to exacerbate racial friction wherever he is a candidate...