Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Counter-Bloc. That was true enough. Yet King had himself helped solidify the white vote by stumping the state to rally Negro support for State Attorney General Richmond Flowers, a fairly recent convert to racial moderation, who had gone all out for the Negro vote. As expected, the great majority of Negroes cast their ballots for Flowers. But the specter of a black-bloc vote effectively polarized the whites, whose unexpectedly unified vote sent Lurleen Wallace soaring ahead of Flowers and all eight other opponents. Without the open threat of a monolithic black ballot, white Alabamians' votes...
...most heartening and significant portent of Alabama's 1966 primary is that Negroes voted-massively, enthusiastically and sensibly. They demonstrated a remarkable ability to vote with racial sympathy in instances where this was the issue and ignore color where it was not important. Said the N.A.A.C.P...
...Faulkner began to enter the integration hassle. He wrote an article for Life explaining how the South could handle its racial problems by itself...
...goes on to observe that the Civil War failed to teach the North its lesson, namely, that it could never force racial justice on the South. He concludes that "the Northerner, the liberal, does not know the South." Apparently, neither does the Southerner...
Johnson's bill would outlaw discrimination on either racial or religious grounds in the "purchase, rental, lease, financing, use and occupancy" of all housing. Violation would not be a criminal offense, but victims of discrimination could seek a court order forcing the owner to rent or sell-and collect up to $500 from him "for humiliation and mental pain...