Word: segregationist
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...storms that Faubus stirred up in Little Rock three years ago, it is a big and scary decision for a school board to assign a Negro pupil to an all-white school. Last week, after a long spell of foot dragging, the Dollarway school board at the segregationist stronghold of Pine Bluff (pop. 40,000) got up its nerve, and in minimum compliance with a 1959 federal court order, hand-picked six-year-old Delores Jean York, daughter of a Negro mill hand, to enter the first grade of the all-white Dollarway public school. "First-graders," the board said...
...South for voting for the 1957 and 1960 civil rights bills, Kefauver defended the bills on the steps of every courthouse where he could draw a crowd. "I shall continue to favor the expansion of the right to vote," he said in Memphis, Tennessee's most strongly segregationist city, "until every qualified citizen, regardless of race, creed or color, is able to exercise his franchise." When his enemies circulated a photograph of him shaking hands with a Negro, he cheerfully said: "I plead guilty to shaking hands with Negroes...
...leadership." After Maughmer became president of the Houston Police Officers Association in 1949, he lobbied luxuriantly in the state capitol. Meanwhile, Mrs. Maughmer was ringleading Houston's McCarthylike Minute Women. In 1956 she got herself on the school board in the most vicious campaign in Houston history. Her segregationist plank: "I'd rather go to jail than see my kids go to school with niggers." As parliamentarian, Bertie often controlled the board. Between sessions of getting books banned, she attacked any form of federal aid to schools. She helped cut off reimbursements for teachers attending meetings...
...third Senate term, the Keef was running scared. Bird-dogging him was the combined specter of a man and an issue that might well keep Estes Kefauver at home next year. The man was Circuit Judge Andrew ("Tip") Taylor, bombastic relic of the Crump machine and no-quarter segregationist. The issue was civil rights...
...explanation: he is running hard against Circuit Judge Andrew ("Tip") Taylor for renomination in Tennessee's Democratic primary, just three weeks hence, and "I'm left with 55 counties [out of 95] yet to visit." More explicit explanation: "Tip Taylor is a fire-and-brimstone segregationist, and," says a Kefauver pal in Los Angeles, "all that Estes needs to lose for sure is to be on the record as voting for somebody like Soapy Williams of Michigan for the vice-presidential nomination, and for a red-hot civil rights plank in the platform...