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Integration demonstrations, and redneck resistance to them, are alike bad for business. Sales of Birmingham's downtown stores dropped 10% when Negroes began boycotts and picketing, fell another 15% when the city brought out the fire hoses and police dogs. Birmingham's pass-through tourist trade is off 40%, and New Orleans lost an American Legion convention with 70,000 potential customers because that city's hotels are segregated (the Legion shifted to Miami Beach, which began to cross the color line in 1958). Sales of Southern school-bond issues are sluggish. Businessmen are also aware that...
...demonstrations; 4) set up a biracial committee to establish a time table for reopening parks and other facilities which Birmingham's city fathers had closed to avoid integration. The first meetings were held in deep secrecy, for the white businessmen involved feared both economic and physical reprisals from redneck hoodlums in Birmingham. Marshall attended nearly all of them. Negroes were represented by a local committee, including A. G. Gaston. one of the U.S.'s few Negro millionaires. Sidney Smyer, a lawyer and real estate man, was the chief spokesman for the whites-and, at week...
...Painter G. Ray Kerciu, 30, assistant professor of art at Ole Miss, the sprawling painting he called America the Beautiful expressed all the raw violence and redneck inhumanity of last September's integration crisis at the university. Kerciu had watched the riots from his office window, and for two weeks afterward found himself unable to lay brush to canvas. But he wanted to express the drama of this turning point of state history. Normally a quiet, representational landscapist, Kerciu adopted the style of Manhattan Artists Jasper Johns and Larry Rivers, who are fascinated by flags and labels. Kerciu painted...
...father (James Anderson) snarls at Atticus. In court he proves his client's innocence, but the jury convicts the Negro anyway; and when he tries to escape, a guard shoots him dead. Nor is the nightmare ended even then. The girl's father, a vicious redneck with more whisky in his stumphole than brains in his head, goes stalking Scout and Jem with murder in his mind, and one night . . . But just then Boo Radley decides to come...
Pride in Carolina. Even more determined to have order is South Carolina, a state so proud of its colonial past that it is often said to regret the American Revolution. South Carolina has always preferred a polite white supremacy to redneck ruffianism. Unlike Mississippi, it is run by gentlemen to whom disgrace is far worse than desegregation. Governor-elect Donald S. Russell, former president of the university, paid only lip service to segregation in his campaign...