Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Disputed Challenges. Humphrey's rivals, particularly McCarthy, did their best to turn the Credentials Committee hearings to their advantage. In Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel ballroom, a record 1,000 delegates from 14 states were challenged on grounds ranging from racial discrimination to improper selection procedures. McCarthy hoped to increase his delegate strength by preventing hundreds of Humphrey supporters from being seated and to set the stage for dramatic floor fights this week. His challenges to the Washington, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Texas, Michigan and Indiana units were rejected. Though the Mississippi delegation was left unseated on the ground...
From the party's Southern conservative wing emerged Lester Maddox, who waited until last week to join the field. In his nationally televised announcement, the former fried-chicken entrepreneur paraphrased the George Wallace platform, extolling private enterprise and attacking crime, big government, racial violence and the Supreme Court. The Georgian will likely cost Humphrey no more than a scattering of votes in the South. Since Maddox regards the three other Democratic candidates as socialists or worse, some Southerners speculated that he was running so that, when rejected, he would have an argument for bolting the party and supporting Wallace...
...helped pass the Voting Rights Act. In presidential politics, the once Solid South no longer has the weight to offset the Democratic Party's liberal elements. When Texan Lyndon Johnson became President, the conservative South found overnight that it still had no ally in the White House on racial and economic issues. Georgia Governor Lester Maddox, the latest presidential entry, complained last week that the "socialists and Communists" now control his ancestral party...
...South, particularly his emphasis on the law-and-order issue. But, as he sees it, this approach is eminently usable outside the South as well, in view of the nation's current concern over crime and violence. Actually, there has been something of a depolarization over the racial issue, at least among many Northern and Southern whites. The Southerners have tended to become less conservative, the Northerners less liberal. Further, middle-road Republicans like Nixon discovered big, centralized government as a target long before Wallace arose as a threat and Southern Republicanism as a lure. It is still...
...Night Call, and it is carried live (11:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m., E.D.T.) five evenings a week on an ad hoc chain that has grown from 21 to 57 radio stations in less than three months. Listeners anywhere may phone collect (Area Code 212: 749-3311) and argue racial issues with an influential national figure who is guest of the night, say James Baldwin, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Muhammad All, Sargent Shriver or Arthur Miller...