Word: rarick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate, in this state that gave George Wallace over 50 per cent of its popular vote. All eight Democratic congressional candidates were easily reelected, five of them running unopposed. Among those returning to e Ninety-First congress are HUAC mogul Edwin E. Willis, arch-segregationist John R. Rarick, and F. Edward "Get rid of the First Amendment" Hebert...
...stark testimony about how difficult it is for a local attorney to represent a Negro. New Orleans Lawyer Lolis Elie, himself a Negro, told how his law office was bombed two years ago. Then he recalled the greeting he received in one courtroom. Said Judge (now U.S. Representative) John Rarick upon Erie's arrival: "I didn't know they let you coons practice...
...first time this century since passage last year of a McKeithen-backed state constitutional amendment allowing a Governor to succeed himself. When results of the Nov. 4 Democratic primary were tallied last week, McKeithen, who once belabored an opponent for courting Negro votes, had buried segregationist Congressman John R. Rarick beneath an avalanche of 836,304 votes; Rarick got only 179,846. McKeithen, an able administrator who is unopposed in a general election next Feb. 6, received widespread Negro support, and more than 250 Negroes sought office in the primary. Most fared poorly, but New Orleans Lawyer Ernest N. Morial...
...cities. In Maryland, Perennial Also-Ran George Mahoney beat out seven rivals for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination by keying his campaign to prejudiced-or frightened -whites. In Louisiana, twelve-term Congressman James Morrison paid for his moderate racial record by losing the Democratic primary election to Segregationist John Rarick, who attacked Morrison as an ally of "the black-power voting bloc...
...John R. Rarick's victory over 12-term Congressman James H. Morrison in a Louisiana Democratic primary illustrated voter discontent with the President, whom Morrison had backed on most issues. The vote was heaviest against the incumbent in the two areas of the district where racial disturbances had occurred. Rarick also skillfully used rhetoric railing against "professional politicians," a ploy most effective when voters seem to be most frustrated...