Word: segregationism
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This economic progress has not been accompanied by the slightest spontaneous relaxation of the rigid social and political controls that Southern whites imposed on Negroes after Reconstruction. (Southern talk that segregation is part of the South's traditional way of life is nonsense; in much of the South, Jim...
Room for Maneuver. This fact gives a hollow ring to arguments of "moderate" Southerners when they protest against federal intervention and demand to be allowed "to work this thing out our own way." Already the Supreme Court's school desegregation decision has accomplished more toward giving first-class citizenship...
Jim decided to run, and with that decision was on his way to becoming a national figure. One month before he started his re-election campaign (which he won handily), the Supreme Court handed down its anti-segregation ruling. Less than a month later, a small group of white citizens...
Into the Vacuum. Eastland denies that he has ever been a member of a Citizens' Council (or of the Klan). There is no doubt that he has become a kind of patron saint of the councils. Stepping into a vacuum at the heart of the councils, he gave them...
While this voting record may be only a prelude to the "new" Nixon, one who now supports the United Nations, economic aid, and a liberal trade program, his latest statement on segregation shows that his sense of political expedieney does not always lead him to principles which Eisenhower has supported...