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...Redneck radicals are more vocal, more vociferous in the Southern Baptist Convention than are the moderate majority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 23, 1962 | 11/23/1962 | See Source »

Such extremist views would do credit to any redneck, but the sentiments belong to James Jackson Kilpatrick, 41, editor of the Richmond, Va., News Leader and one of the most gifted and eloquent spokesmen for the Old South. They sputter all through his new book, The Southern Case for School Segregation (Crowell-Collier; $3.95). But though diehard racists will doubtless thrill to its themes, as they have thrilled for years to Kilpatrick's racist editorials in the News Leader, the book is really a swan song-Editor Kilpatrick's last roar of defiance in what even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Petulant Plea | 10/26/1962 | See Source »

...Elvis Presley "like he come with green coupons." Elvis thoughtfully replies: "Only girls." The girls may or may not be right, but for one reason or another people pay good money to see Elvis Presley pictures. In this one, which is slightly better than most, Elvis plays a Georgia redneck who stakes out a homestead on state land in Florida. He is weak in the head but strong in the arm. When the state highway department tries to have him evicted, he stubbornly stands his ground. When some gamblers try to scare him out, he knocks their heads together like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In Florida with Elvis | 5/4/1962 | See Source »

...Folsom, 53, a favorite to win the Democratic gubernatorial primary-and with it an unprecedented third term in a state where the Governor cannot succeed himself. After idling away his latest interregnum selling insurance in the hinterlands, 6-ft. 8-in. Folsom faced only one real stumbling block: a redneck notion that he is soft on segregation because he once sipped Scotch with Harlem Congressman Adam Clayton Powell in the executive mansion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 2, 1962 | 2/2/1962 | See Source »

...Mississippi redneck could guess what James Myron Ward, 42, of the Jackson Daily News (circ. 42,593) would say about the "Friction Riders"-as the News calls them. Jimmy did not let them down: "The Congress of Riot Encouragement [Ward's phrase for the Congress of Racial Equality] and concerned officials in Washington rejoice that McComb fell and the Greyhound bus terminal rest room has been integrated. While these dear hearts are jubilant over victory day, people down this way mark last Friday as VD day in Mississippi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mississippi's Voice | 12/22/1961 | See Source »

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