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...Very Sorry." Next day the delegates fanned out across Capitol Hill to pin down their Congressmen on civil rights. Ohio's Republican Senator George Bender was ready to agree to everything, even the dispatch of U.S. troops to keep order in Mississippi. Virginia's segregationist Democratic Representative Howard W. Smith declined to see the delegates: "A waste of your time and mine." Most dramatic confrontation came when Mississippi's Gus Courts walked into the office of Missis sippi's James O. Eastland. Courts told the Senator how he had been shot, whereupon Eastland shook his head...
Next fall, announced Washington's Sidwell Friends School, "a limited number of qualified Negro students" will be admitted to the school's kindergarten. Among the students now attending all-white Sidwell: three children of Mississippi's arch-segregationist Senator James O. Eastland, loudest voice of the bias-bawling white Citizens' Council. On hearing the news. Mrs. Elizabeth Eastland gulped: "It comes as a surprise." Affably drawled Jim Eastland: "No comment." The Senator's consolation, if he decides to let his children stay at Sidwell: unless his kiddies flunk several grades, or some of the late...
Into the Tennessee State Capitol at Nashville tramped 250 demonstrators bearing banners that read TENNESSEE BETRAYED, SEGREGATION OR WAR, and GOD, THE ORIGINAL SEGREGATIONIST. Representatives of the Tennessee Society to Maintain Segregation Inc., the Associated Citizens' Councils of Tennessee, and Pro-Southerners Inc., the demonstrators came to persuade Governor Frank Clement (TIME, Jan. 30) that Tennessee should declare the Supreme Court decision "null and void." They got an early hint of Clement's answer: when one of the demonstrators tried to eject a Negro photographer, a state trooper intervened: "If you hit that man, I'll lock...
...Memphis, Carter was in a battle with the other extreme. Appearing before the Memphis Public Affairs Forum, he denounced the pro-segregationist Citizen's Councils (TIME, Dec. 20) as "dangerous and unholy [organizations] unworthy to be called American ... a kind of uptown Ku Klux Klan." In the middle of his speech, Carter was interrupted by the wailing of sirens and the arrival at the auditorium of fire engines, police squad cars, a Navy shore-patrol wagon and two ambulances, all summoned by false alarms to break up the meeting. Cracked Carter: "The only thing missing was the Coast Guard...
...segregationist Citizens Council of Indianola, Miss. offered a $50 prize for the best essay written as part of the required work in the high-school's junior and senior English classes. Subject of the essay: "The Advantages to Both Races of Continued Separate Schools...