Word: rouser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...governors typified the dilemma in which Orval Faubus had placed the South. Only one, Georgia's Marvin Griffin, was a rabble-rouser of the Faubus stripe. The four others, Florida's LeRoy Collins, Tennessee's Frank Clement, North Carolina's Luther Hodges and Maryland's Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin, were moderates. But the emotional turmoil of the South had forced Collins, Clement and Hodges toward the side of Demagogue Faubus, even though most of them privately blamed him for the trouble. In Washington, they hoped to find a way to get federal troops out of Little...
...Court. Next day the Battle of Nashville moved to a climax in the courts. The first blow was struck by City Judge Andrew Doyle, who read a crushing lecture to Rabble-rouser Kasper, hauled up during the week on charges that ranged from parking in a no-parking zone through vagrancy to incitement to riot. "I consider you guilty of the lowest possible degree of vagrancy," said Judge Doyle. "You came into this town to cause racial disorder. You and others like you are responsible for any blood that may be shed. I only wish we had enough policemen...
...these niggers pulls a razor or a gun on us, we'll give it to 'em . . . When they fool with the white race they're fooling with the strongest race in the world, the most bloodthirsty race in the world." Hot-eyed Rabble-rouser John Kasper mentioned the name of one of Nashville's Negro civic leaders and dramatically held up a rope, then talked hazily about dynamite...
Tennessee. Mob violence, sparked by Rabble-rouser John Kasper, flared in Clinton a year ago when Negroes entered Tennessee's first integrated school. Last week eight Negro pupils sat in Clinton High classrooms, and the town was reassuringly peaceful. But when Nashville admitted twelve Negro first-graders to white schools, Carpetbagger Kasper butted in again-with explosive results (see The Battle of Nashville...
...also punish violators of his order for contempt of court. Bound on gutting the bill, Southern legislators rallied around an amendment taking contempt punishment out of the judge's hands and putting it in the hands of a jury. The trial-by-jury cry, a ,pretty good rabble-rouser, stirred up so much emotion that many a conservative Midwest Republican found it a handy pretext for joining Southern Democrats on the amendment...