Word: segregationist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inserting himself into a local tempest over the expulsion of seven high school students for fighting, she sounded a bit like one--the late Leander Perez. "I really resent outsiders coming in and telling us how to run our schools," Goetter whined, conjuring up memories of the legendary segregationist's threat to bury "outside agitators" in the bayous of Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish during the 1960s. It was a lousy choice of words...
...held that "separate but equal" public schools for blacks and whites violated the Constitution. It caused a firestorm as the South vowed "massive resistance" to school integration. When Marshall appeared on NBC's Youth Wants to Know, Georgia stations replaced the show with a taped address by segregationist Governor Herman Talmadge...
...lemony charm and discipline, at times condescending, at times lethal in her sarcasm and breathtaking in her daring, she argued that the Senators need not fear that acquitting Clinton will harm women or civil rights; she would vouch for him. After Mills was through, Strom Thurmond, the old segregationist, came over to congratulate her. Mills' White House office quickly filled up with so many flowers from well wishers that aides joked it looked like a wedding chapel...
...spectacle filled with galling reminders of the G.O.P.'s alliances with anti-black forces. The presiding officer is Chief Justice William Rehnquist, a Republican appointee who had a well-documented early life as a segregationist before his rise to the high court. In the 1960s he was the leader of Operation Eagle Eye, described by the Arizona Republic as "a flying squad of G.O.P. lawyers that swept through south Phoenix to question the right of minority voters to cast their ballots." The man who swore Rehnquist in as presiding officer of the trial, South Carolina Republican Strom Thurmond...
HONEST, ABE! Yes, that really was Senator Strom Thurmond cheering Nelson Mandela below a statue of Abraham Lincoln last week. Thurmond, who in 1948 ran for President as a segregationist and who in 1957 conducted a record-busting filibuster against a civil rights bill, was not always so Mandela friendly. In 1985 he voted against imposing economic sanctions on South Africa's apartheid regime and for a provision declaring Mandela's African National Congress a terrorist group; in 1986 he voted against sanctions again and backed an unsuccessful Reagan veto of the measures. But that was before Mandela...