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...redneck sheriffs and snitches, and it financially aided White Citizens Councils, another perversely racist organization whose members wore suits instead of sheets. One of the Commission's agents informed the Ku Klux Klan of the license plate number of the car which the Freedom Summer martyrs James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman were driving. The car was stopped by Klansmen all three were murdered...
...liberal bruiser. Republicans have so many more weapons available. They can appeal to the politics of hate, trumpeting white supremacy under the guise of states' rights. Reagan proclaimed this message in his 1980 campaign in the same Mississippi county where the famous civil rights workers Cheney, Schwerner and Goodman were murdered. Republicans can also scapegoat the poor. "Welfare queen" rhetoric now seems tame. Republican congressional representatives have started referring to welfare recipients as "wolves" and "crocodiles...
Traditionally, and especially in 20th century America, Jews have believed that the measure of a just society is how it treats its least fortunate. The picture of Abraham Joshua Heschel marching with Martin Luther King, the memory of Schwerner and Goodman dying with Chaney in Mississippi, and the glorious record of Jack Greenberg's crusades in the courts are examples of American Jews applying traditional Jewish values of justice and kindness to their dealings with African-Americans...
...three hours at night...The three is also for the Civil Rights workers. There are so many threes. Some might say three stooges or three musketeers, but that ain't nothing you know me, but three also stands for the three Civil Rights workers: Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner. A black, a Jew, and a white. The guys that got murdered in '63, you know with the movie about Mississippi Burning and all that, you know...
...wine cellar); "We lie together, Pan and Ceres, the god of the woods and the goddess of grain" (afterglow). Half the novel is about her ill-fated passion; the rest is her resume. Leila did the '60s ("I produced happenings with Yoko Ono") and civil rights ("Mississippi with Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney"). She sounds a little like the pathological liar on Saturday Night Live: Yeah, that's it, I dated Martin Luther King, that's the ticket...