Word: segregationist
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...criticism, Davis has issued a series of open letters to friends and parishioners, arguing that his policies and actions have been much misunderstood. In one, he smoothly explained why he had asked a young Negro girl to wait a while before joining. At the time, a resolution condemning the segregationist policies...
...fifth term as mayor of Miami, who announced his candidacy last week. High ran against Burns in the 1964 primary runoff and won a surprising 42% of the vote. Like Collins, High would count heavily on moderates and Negroes in opposing Burns, who is a mild segregationist...
...Southern gentlemen who founded the Southern Baptist Convention with the defense of slavery as a key motivation would be shocked at the Baptists' Christian Life Commission. Battling the deeply segregationist feelings of millions of members of the nation's biggest Protestant denomination, the commission is inexorably turning Southern Baptist opinion toward the acceptance of Negroes as equals...
...Your story on General Walker [Nov. 5] contains two misstatements of fact: 1) the AP cub reporter charged Walker with "encouraging the riots," 2) "segregationist" Walker sued AP. The two verdicts Walker won were based on false charges by AP that Walker "assumed command" of a mob of 1,000 people and "led a charge" against U.S. marshals. If Walker had been charged only with "encouraging riots," the verdicts would be improper. Under the facts, as proved in court, the verdicts were proper. Moreover, Walker is not a "segregationist...
...Godwin campaign suggests that the Machine is adapting to new conditions. Godwin lost votes to a third party Conservative in the Southside, the heart of rural segregationist sentiment in Virginia. He gained a huge percentage of votes from urban Negroes, most of whom had voted Republican before Goldwater. He ran fairly well in the city and suburban areas in general, where the Machine has always been weak...