Word: secessionism
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The grandparents of present-day Southerners were occupied by a vicious army of their countrymen; they were told that they had less rights than black people who were once slaves; they had to face up to a brain-cleaving guilt: the young men of the region had begun a slaughter...
But the South has changed before -and remained the same, through slavery and secession, independence and defeat, emancipation, reconstruction and integration. The best exposition of its present condition came from one of its major prophets, Martin Luther King, who liked to quote a favorite Baptist preacher: "We ain't...
THE RENEGADE Prime Minister became prominent in Rhodesian politics through opposing British attempts to promote majority government in the early 1960s. He helped form the Rhodesian Front and led the country's secession from the British empire in 1966. Following independence, Smith sponsored the legislative reversal of the trend toward...
As if President Costa Gomes did not have enough trouble in Lisbon, General Atlino Magalhàes, military governor of the Portuguese Azores, last week warned that the islands would not accept a government that was unrepresentative of the Portuguese people. The statement was interpreted as a veiled threat that...
When American settlers moved westward across the continent, they, like the early Atlantic seaboard settlers, went in secession. They went away from pre-empted lands and diminished opportunities, from towns that to them seemed already crowded, to a new America in the West. They went not to build a nation...