Word: redneck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Something euphemistically called the Georgia Commission on Education was only a one-stenographer state agency charged with inventing anti-integration laws until Redneck Governor Marvin Griffin decided that it was meant for bigger things. To the unexploited office of commission executive secretary he appointed an ambitious, possum-shaped Atlanta lawyer named T.V. (for Truman Veran) Williams Jr., 26. Williams soon multiplied the commission staff by ten, moved into prominent quarters across the street from the state capitol. He talked the legislature into giving him the power of subpoena, plenty of money for a dreamy assortment of private-eye equipment-long...
...three brought to 45 the South's bomb count since January 1957. Most of the attacks have been against Negroes, but. for the first time since a short-lived 1951 outbreak in Miami, the South's spare Jewish population (less than 1%) was suffering directly from the redneck dogma that integration is a Jewish plot. Since last November, bombs have landed at six Jewish centers and synagogues...