Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...candidate who had most to lose from the riots in Atlanta's Negro slums was Ellis Arnall, a polished millionaire lawyer who in 1942 wrested the governorship from the legendary Gene Talmadge. Running as an outspoken racial moderate, Arnall, now 59, this year had to compete with five others for the Democratic nomination to succeed Governor Carl Sanders. His most formidable opposition came from segregationists, who did their utmost to exploit the specter of black power...
...votes did not constitute a clear majority, Arnall faces a runoff on Sept. 28 against Atlanta's Lester Maddox, 50, who became a martyr to the segregationist cause by closing down his Pickrick restaurant in Atlanta rather than obey the 1964 civil rights law barring racial discrimination in public accommodations. Maddox drew 166,000 votes in an unexpectedly close struggle for second place with State...
...school-desegregation decree have white Southern racists resorted to such brutish mob violence as the terrorism that greeted school opening in Grenada, Miss., last week. A neat, small (pop. 12,000), outwardly placid county seat deep in Faulkner country, Grenada (pronounced Gren-ay-da) had been simmering with racial tension ever since the James Mer edith protest march trooped through town last June...
More than 40 schoolchildren were treated for injuries. The violence also took its toll on the remaining vestiges of responsible white leadership. At the height of the fury, the mob demanded -and got-the resignation of City Manager John McEachiri, who, though an avowed segregationist, had discouraged racial violence so as not to impede the town's influx of light industry...
...times change. In 1961, shortly after the Sharpeville massacre had set South Africa reeling, Verwoerd decided that authoritarianism was just what the nation needed, named Vorster as Justice Minister, and ordered him to snuff out racial violence. Setting to work with a vengeance, Vorster sent his cops swooping in to arrest African political leaders, beefed up his police force with more men and riot equipment, spent millions of dollars extending the police network of informers...