Word: segregationist
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...success: the service's monthly Southern School News has walked the tightrope of factual reporting so skillfully that partisans on opposite sides now look up to it, and an increasing number of Southern newspapers are carrying its stories. A single mail brought subscription renewals from Georgia's Segregationist Herman Talmadge and Desegregationist and Novelist Lillian (Strange Fruit) Smith. Last week the service's correspondents were back at their posts throughout the South after a conference in Nashville to plan another year of "providing accurate, unbiased information...
Adlai Stevenson's float through the air pointed up the serious problems involved in negotiating such political acrobatics. His strongest support in Florida's primary came largely from the violently segregationist Third Congressional District in the northwest (Tallahassee). There, Stevenson's supporters, including veteran (eight terms) U.S. Representative Robert L. F. ("Daddy") Sikes, campaigned hard for their candidate as a man the South can trust on the race issue. The locals called in Mississippi's Political Strategist Sam Wilhite, who was a key manager in U.S. Senator James Oliver Eastland's campaign, to help Stevenson...
...eight-foot, gasoline-soaked wooden cross was ignited before the residence of Roman Catholic Archbishop Joseph F. Rummel, who has called segregation "morally wrong and sinful," allowed his diocesan newspaper to talk of excommunication for Catholics who block his policy of church and school integration. One organization of segregationist Catholic laymen is appealing to Rome after having been forced by the archbishop to disband...
...better-dressed, better-mannered politico than his father (Herman likes to chew tobacco, but generally settles for ten cigars a day), Talmadge Jr. ran an efficient state administration, is a successful farmer and lawyer as well as a bitter-end segregationist. He promises as a Senator to work to reverse the Supreme Court's school-desegregation decision and to restrict the court's power generally. He refers to the nine Supreme Court Justices as "a little group of politicians [who have] not had enough experience to handle one chicken thief in Mitchell County" (the bottom of Georgia...
Despite the threats of revolt, A.F.L.-C.I.O. leaders see little danger of mass secession by segregationist locals, mainly because organized workers would be reluctant to forfeit the contracts and bargaining power they have won through international unions. In union affairs and on the job, most organized workers in the South today recognize that equality of opportunity and pay benefits all workers, regardless of race. Drinking fountains, washrooms and cafeterias are usually still segregated in Southern plants-in most cases by state law-but union activities are nearly always integrated. In many locals, e.g., packinghouse, textile, woodworkers, elected Negro officers represent...