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...many speeches Flowers insists that he is a segregationist. He reminds his audience that his grandfathers fought for the Confederacy...
Does he consider himself a segregationist as most people in his audience use that word...
...could write history, we might write it differently," he said. "That's the reason I say I'm a segregationist. I'm a Southerner...
Godwin's neck is out. As a state senator, he led the Byrd machine's "massive resistance" campaign against school in tegration in 1959 and 1960, and has faithfully supported segregationist, budget-cutting legislation. However, since his election to the lieutenant-governorship in 1961, he has been carefully cultivating a more moderate image. Last year, with an eye to the Statehouse, Godwin campaigned vigorously for Lyndon Johnson while most Byrd stalwarts either sat on their hands or roundly supported Barry Goldwater. Godwin maintains that his earlier advocacy of segregated schools gave Virginians a "breathing period" in which...
...bishop knows his diocese and its problems well. One of six children, he was born the son of a rice-mill worker in segregationist Lake Charles, La. The family spoke French at home, and although the parents never got to high school, all six children attended college; one brother became a surgeon, two of them dentists. Harold Perry entered St. Augustine's Divine Word Seminary in Mississippi at 13, was ordained in 1944, and spent 14 years as a parish priest. Appointed rector of the seminary in 1958, he worked for better race relations, caught the eye of Archbishop...