Word: segregationist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Freddie Lee Thomas, James Reeb and other fallen civil rights workers. Its soul was the soul of the Mt. Olive Baptist Church in Terrell County. Georgia, one of many Negro churches burned or bombed to the ground. Its mentality was that of sheriff James Clark and other faceless, mindless segregationist law enforcers singlehandedly determined to "keep nigger in his place." And its heart was Selma, Alabama--25,000 proud people marching, hands clasped, and with full throats, chanting old Negro spirituals, on their way to the state capital in a voter registration drive...
...chief opponent of the act is Thurmond, who has replaced Kennedy as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Once a rabid segregationist, Thurmond is now quite accommodating to the blacks who make up one-third of his constituency. He has hired blacks for his staff and helped appoint a black federal judge in his state. But he is not exactly a convert to the civil rights movement, and he wants to amend the Voting Rights Act to provide a way that states can avoid federal clearance of new election laws. If that cannot be done, then Thurmond and other Southern...
When the time came for the civil rights movement, Wallace says, the White media served to foster a myth of the Black protesters as "superstuds," manipulating them as much as any segregationist laws did. "Being taught that they were studs was just as oppressive as being told they could not take care of their families," she says. As a consequence, Black men "were doomed to protest in the way in which they had been programmed. The most immediately gratifying way young Black men of the '60s could assert their manhood was by having a White woman or oppressing Black women...
Bill Wilkinson, Imperial Wizard, climbs out of his silver Caddy and, clad in a blue business suit, strides to the platform. Backed by an American flag and a Klan banner, surrounded by hoods (literal use), he launches into his speech. Starting slowly, he declares, "I'm a segregationist, and I will die a segregationist." Warming to his task, this former electrical contractor explains that mixing the races will never work because "you cannot make unequal people equal." His philosophical cards on the table, Wilkinson's job becomes easier--his only remaining task is to suggest the future course of public...