Word: segregationist
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...dilemma in Dixie prepared by two liberal groups, the nationally organized Republicans for Progress and the Yale-based Republican Advance. Their report, a product of a state-by-state survey, warned that G.O.P. organizations in Alabama, Mississippi and South Carolina are "lily-white," and described party support for segregationist candidates as "sheer madness...
...unseated in 1958 after taking a moderate stand on the Little Rock integration riots, became a candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination to succeed six-term Incumbent Orval Faubus, 56, who says (not for the first time) that he is retiring. Other Democrats in the race include Segregationist State Supreme Court Justice Jim Johnson, 41, and Businessman Winston Chandler, 46. However, Hays's chief rival for the nomination is expected to be the man who ousted him from Congress, Little Rock Oculist Dale Alford, 50, who has yet to announce. The Democratic nominee will face Arkansas' Mr. Republican...
Bloc for Ability. As with any ethnic or religious group, Negroes will on occasion undoubtedly deliver a bloc vote for their own candidates, particularly if they are qualified and appealing, or challenge a segregationist...
...used to; the 1964 Civil Rights Act permits remand orders to be appealed. Negroes still face a major hurdle: Southern federal district judges. Many are scrupulously fair, notably Alabama's Frank Johnson, an Eisenhower appointee, and Florida's Bryan Simpson, a Truman appointee. But others are deeply segregationist, a problem largely attributable to the Kennedy Administration, which surprisingly named such men as Mississippi's William H. Cox, who once described the Negroes involved in a case before him as nothing but a bunch of "chimpanzees" who "ought to be in the movies rather than being registered...
...drawn from voting rolls, but where there is evidence of racial discrimination, other methods are to be employed. Above all, the administration of the system is left to the Court of Appeals judges acting as the judicial council for each circuit, and not to individual, possibly segregationist judges. The bill also bars discrimination in state jury lists and puts federal courts in a watchdog position to ensure fairness, but it does not tell the states what procedures to follow...