Word: segregationist
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...swiftly shucked the lieutenant governor's obscurity when he succeeded Lurleen. Within hours of taking office, he was seeking to revitalize a state administration left sagging by Wallace's neglect and alleviate a major economic crisis. Although Brewer earlier supported Wallace, he is no sycophant. A conservative segregationist, Brewer shuns public talk of racism and has no stomach for Wallace's stem-winding battles with Washington. As his own man, Brewer enjoys statewide renown, could prove a formidable opponent to Wallace if, as expected, they square off in 1970 for the governorship...
...sick and tired of white ideologues who exploit the Negro and riots as viciously as any lousy segregationist I've met in the South," he said...
More from More It would be an outrageous generality to say that the most money always wins. In 1966, Georgia's Segregationist Lester Maddox proved that a polemicist can be elected Governor just by saying the right thing to the right people. He did not even give away campaign buttons: he sold them. In 1964, Barry Goldwater's campaign for the presidency cost the most ever ($19.3 million) and lost by the biggest margin ever. What Goldwater also did was to bring the Republican Party 72% of its gifts in amounts of less than $500, making the G.O.P...
There are some who read this voluntarily segregationist spirit as an expression of the Negro's desire to separate from the society that segregates him. This same theory holds that Black Power is a self-destructive force, a prisoner of its own wrath, a rebellion that is against everything and for nothing. According to this interpretation, the Black Power movement has retired the civil rights movement, which from the beginning depended heavily on white strategy and leadership...
After the Supreme Court, no single U.S. court has been more important to Negro civil rights than the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas all fall under its jurisdiction. So it is that when an opening occurs on the court, segregationists and civil rights lawyers hold their respective breaths until the President nominates a new man. Because of the court's work load, it was expanded last year from nine to thirteen judges. This week the final vacancy will be filled when Claude Feemster Clayton, 58, takes the path...