Word: segregationism
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Cook called the Supreme Court's segregation decision "A flagrant example of usurpation of power," and served notice that "we Georgians intend to circumvent it."
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (Special to the CRIMSON)--With police guarding against a threat to break up the meeting, an overflow crowd of 800 heard Eugene Cook, attorney-general of Georgia, defend the "Southern View" of segregation, at the Yale Law School last night.
Cook, a leader in the fight to circumvent the decision, said that "in the Deep South, the overwhelming majority of both whites and Negroes agrees that segregation serves the best interest of both races." The minority, which he estimated at five per cent, consists, he said, of "paid agitators and...
The pay-off of You and Segregation is not how Talmadge rationalizes his views, but what he proposes in order "to preserve our liberty." Although he never exactly comes around to an active nullification doctrine, the Supreme Court is most definitely not the final word for Herman Talmadge. He says...
Except that Herman Talmadge wrote You and Segregation, the book might be dismissed as just another poorly-written, ill-conceived diatribe. But the author, like his father, is a tremendously powerful Southern spokesman. And by his big talk, he betrays himself as a desperate man who will try most anything...