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...bitterly segregationist Pine Bluff had learned a lesson from Little Rock, 45 miles away. And lean, responsible Lee Parham, president of the Dollarway school board, had pounded it home. "This is the only thing we can do," said he all over town. "Any violence over it will only hurt us in the future." Even the Citizens' Council agreed. As one Pine Bluffer put it: "It's awful hard to be a brave fighter when your opponent is a six-year-old girl...
...Florida, and seems to have reverted to type. Its newest school was named after Civil War General Nathan Bedford Forrest, and even the kids knew that "Fustest with the mostest" Forrest was one of the founders of the Ku Klux Klan. Mayor Haydon Burns is a 48-year-old segregationist with his eye on the Governor's chair and a shuddering distaste for doing anything to promote racial amity. Police Chief Luther Reynolds is a 62-year-old, greying Andy Gump, a man who "does not believe Jacksonville is ready for integration...
...touched by the Atlanta sun. Rather, they were caught up by one more manifestation of upsurging Southern interest in the Republican candidate. The week before, Nixon found the same enthusiasm in a five-hour hop to Greensboro, N.C. (TIME, Aug. 29). He found it again prop-stopping in ruggedly segregationist Birmingham as he began his day-long swing last week...
...copies have already rolled in. The religious issue is even being played with a special Southern twist. When New Orleans Archbishop Joseph Rummel issued a pastoral letter deploring the resistance to public school integration, there was an uproar from the fringe. Snarled Louisiana's arch-segregationist Leander H. Perez, himself a Catholic: "The letter can only be interpreted as the Catholic hierarchy's endorsement of Kennedy for President...
...Ledger-Dispatch, on the other hand, remains staunchly states' rightsist, though there are signs that it has mellowed slightly. Says former Editor Joseph Leslie, an ardent segregationist who retired last year: "The paper is not as obnoxious now as when I was running it." Arriving this week to take over Leslie's old job is an editor who can be expected to follow the Ledger-Dispatch's traditional policies: William H. Fitzpatrick, 52, a Pulitzer prizewinning editor for the New Orleans States and for the past eight years an editorial writer on the Wall Street Journal...